This song paints a sort of self portrait. With the opening lyrics ‘Give me a canvas, I’ll paint you a picture of my smile not my pain - Give you something you can frame’  I wanted emphasize our self-curated culture along with its fabrications . When we decide what people see - it’s easy to create an entirely false version of ourselves  - And what’s worse is we can even start to believe our own lies. 

At the bridge, however, a shift occurs as I am confronted with the truth of who I really am and also, who I am not. Asking the Lord to show me to me, I’ve found that the only time I ever see myself clearly in life is to see God, truly.

It’s not a one time glance that changes my sophisticated, prone-to-wicked heart but a continual onlooking. The bridge makes light of the holiness of God, which is in stark contrast with my unholiness and so ends with a plea we can be assured Christ answers because he himself commanded it - to be holy as He is holy. May our resolve be much like the final lyrics: Lord, make me a Canvas, a portrait of You. 

1 John 1:5

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

1 John 1:7

But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.