What Are We Made For? Rising Artist Shares God-Given Purpose
By Movieguide® Contributor
When Aussie native Aodhán King came to America, it was to make a pop album. But when God reminded him what he is made for — to worship Him — he switched gears.
“I moved to America three years ago, came here to kind of just start working on my own thing,” King told Sadie Robertson Huff on her podcast this month. “I started in like writing like a pop record…Moved to America to do that, I was kind of like all geared up to do that.”
But when he finished the album, even though there were songs he was proud of, he didn’t feel at peace about it.
It “was confusing to me because it was all great, and I remember just praying like, ‘God, like, what am I meant to do?’ …I remember this moment…God kind of just saying like, ‘Don’t forget about me in this process,’ and for me, at that time, it wasn’t that I had forgotten about Him, but it was almost like I’d forgotten the gifts and things that I feel like God’s given me. Like I wasn’t completely, I wasn’t ready to fully use them for Him at that time that made sense.”
A short while later, he went to London and wrote a song with Josh Grimmitt, which further moved his direction away from pop.
“I remember like the first lines that were coming out of us was like made to worship, and it was this like reminder again of like, ‘Oh that’s what I was made to do. I was made to worship God,’ and that song, I guess, was the catalyst for this record, which is a worship album, and it’s like, you know, from that moment, I was like how do I make this feel like, you know — I’ve done corporate worship for so long with Hillsong and with Young and Free, and I really wanted the project to be, I guess, different to things I’ve done like same in the heart — but I wanted it to feel like new.”
Because being created to worship God is not something just unique to himself, he wanted to incorporate others in his new Christian album, the name of which hasn’t been announced.
“I’ve been able to invite a lot of people that have never sung…worship songs publicly before like and…they may be known for other things, for being an artist in different spaces, but I wanted this project to be this place where like, ‘Hey everyone can come and sing worship,’ like that’s what we were designed to do, were made to do that, so it’s eclectic but it’s cool,” he said.
After their podcast, Huff posted a clip on Instagram and said, “Instead of putting a timeline on our lives, we can fully trust God with the path he has for us.?”
One song from King’s new album just released last week. It’s a soft worship song called, “Thank You So Much Jesus.”
Some of the lyrics read:
Every morning as I rise
Every moment of my life
No matter what may change
My prayer to You it stays the same
Lead me where I’m supposed to be
You’re the lamp unto my feet
Let every breath I take
Be pleasing to Your perfect name
Movieguide® reported on a previous podcast conversation between Huff and King:
Huff mentioned that many of her listeners are high school and college students, and they are in “stretching seasons” where they are attempting to figure out who they are and what they want.
“It’s uncomfortable, and it hurts, and it’s hard sometimes, but it’s getting you to your maximum potential. And that’s why, [for] athletes, it’s before you go on a race that you’re going to stand on the sidelines and you’re going to really stretch it out, and it might hurt, it might be uncomfortable, but that’s going to get you to your best potential,” Huff shared.
“A lot of times, it’s before you hit your stride that you have to stretch,” she continued. “And you know, of course, right when you move, it’s going to take you a while to reach your stride.”
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