Monday, November 26, 2007

Something You Call Grace

I've got to climb to the top
Never stop, until I reach it
Until I feel that I'm gold
And that I'm in control
Of life and my thought
When I'm not, I still preach it
Because they're all going to see
if I start to fall or lose control.
I'm losing control...of this

I've been balancing on suspended pianos
And trying to stay composed
It makes the loudest noise when they begin to crash
With eyes on me, I force a laugh
You come to me and set me free

I cross my arms across my chest
This is not a gift I can accept
But I appreciate the sentiment
I've worked too hard for rightousness
To just lay down while you hand me this
And put my faith in something you call grace...from you.

I've been lost inside a cave without a lantern
At every sound I start to run
I feel my way around the dark without a pattern
If I would wait you'd come
to rescue me and sail away

I cross my arms across my chest
This is not a gift I can accept
But I appreciate the sentiment
I've worked too hard for rightousness
To just lay down while you hand me this
And put my faith in something you call grace...

[from you]
I've been trying to learn what is from you.
Because I've been trying to earn what is freely given.

Every sound that you
Try to just refuse
Does it give and take?
Keeps it in my face
And tell me that this blood
Was spilled in vain.

Cool Hand Luke ~ The Balancing Act


Can I put my faith where it belongs? Not in myself, not in the flesh or in pomises I can't hold on to.
But in grace I do not deserve. When I know he wants me back.

The Grace That Sustains

Current Sermon

If I try harder I will fail. Nothing I can do to make myself better will succeed. That sounds depressing, but I know that those are the words of freedom for a fallen man. The grace truth is the only thing that can save us from ourselves, and the bible makes it clear that grace is what God offers through Jesus. Nothing else can restore, save, emancipate, redeem... free. I am work in progress, but a work in the hands of a gracious redeemer who can relate to my weaknesses as he was in all ways tempted like I. "if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!" (Romans 5:10)
"For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:38) He promises that I will not be seperated from Him, no matter what. I am insufficiant on my own, and no attempt will satisfy the law, but for grace He is enough, and for that I am humbled.

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