There's one specific phrase from a song that I've heard in chapel and in church that always baffles me.
"We wrap our lives around Your life."
Besides the fact that it sounds weird--somewhat like wrapping your mind around something, but on a grander scale--I think it's biblically unsound. Why would we envelope Christ? If something were to envelope Christ, wouldn't it downplay his characteristics? Isn't it understood that the more powerful, more important things envelope other things?
Wouldn't a more accurate representation be that He encompasses us? Since it is biblical that because of His life and sacrifice, when God looks at us He sees instead that of Christ. If I'm wrong, let me know. But this phrase...
I have to stop singing the song every time I hear it and debate in my head the ways in which I think this is yet another poorly thought-out and written praise song.