Sit At Your Feet
If Friend to me was about friendship, Sit At Your Feet is about what you do with it.
We always knew this song would be among our first releases, but it didn't feel right to include in the worship night — and we didn’t want to sing a song purely for logistical reasons.
Now we know, it was waiting for its own moment.
A pastor who spoke into us described vssls as “a gift from within the Church to the Church.”
And in remembrance of the greatest Gift we can ever receive, vssls offers Sit At Your Feet as a gift which remembers the Gift.
But Sit At Your Feet is a gift not only from vssls. It’s also a gift from God to vssls .
In the weeks that Sit At Your Feet was being completed, Joel and Luke went on a retreat in the beautiful Flerieu Peninsula. Here, a pastor prayed over Joel with no knowledge that the song existed, and landed on the exact picture of the alabaster jar already written into the lyrics — the extravagant offering, the scoffing room, the One who defends it and calls it beautiful, using it for His Kingdom purpose, wasting nothing.
The confirmations kept arriving from unconnected directions. Early in the vssls journey, we had talked about gathering a few friends into a studio to record. It was 2 Kings 4 — the widow gathering empty vessels, oil flowing as long as there were vessels to fill — read on 22 December 2025 that prompted a different direction entirely: a worship night and live recording. A few weeks ago, in the midst of finalising the track for submission, we went on a holiday, and a pastor at a church we were visiting for the first time preached an entire Sunday on new oil and new wineskins from that same passage — with no knowledge that vssls or the song existed. She closed with five words: Your pouring is your worship.
Sit At Your Feet released on Good Friday was also God’s hand in the details.
As we were finalising the release of Friend to me, we noticed for the first time how closely the song walks through the Easter story, and because of that, what we have access to today.
Good Friday is the day the curtain tore. The way to the feet of God was opened all the way through, at a cost we could never have paid.
We pray that Sit At Your Feet helps bring you to his feet this Good Friday, and for all your days — not the put-together version, but an open heart, honest thoughts, the deepest place, the whole of yourself — at his feet.
It’s a song for the ordinary spaces you live in. And for the sealed ones you've never let anyone near. Whatever you're carrying into that room, he already knows it. He has already been there. The invitation isn't for him. It's for you.
The posture is the prayer.
Sit At Your Feet is accompanied with its email devotional series — a gift offered freely to anyone who wants to go deeper.
An Easter message from Joel on behalf of vssls to the listeners of The Light FM’s AusMusicShowcase:
