My ramblings....

Dave Crowder Lyrics....Paul...God...and me trying to figure it out

Praise Him under open skies
Everything breathing praising God
In the company of all who love the King
I will dance, I will sing
It could be heavenly
Turn the music loud, lift my voice and shout
From where I am
From where I've been
He's been there with me
He's built a monument
His very people
So let his people
Sing, sing, sing

-DCB

Passionately persuing with reckless abandon
How else can this fire in my soul be quenched?
Fueled, exploded
Into the outer reaches of the universe
That's where I want to go
You've done this in me
Ignited a desire for what's right
For my living and following
My searching and doing
There is a deficit in my soul without you
Something broken, a discrepancy between my halves
I need to be made good
I have a pre-exsisting need within me
To be loved by you, and to love thereon
It is deep set and often I underestimate it
In overlooking, it becomes volatile
Starved for my own deepest need
My very reason of nature
To be close to you, to have your whispers echoed in my heart

So I'll start over again
Saying things I've said million times over

"For if I know the law but still can't keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help! I realize that I don't have what it takes. I can will it, but I can't do it. I decide to do good, but I don't really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway" (Romans 7:17-19)

"It happens so regularly that it's predictable. The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up. I truly delight in God's commands, but it's pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight. Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take charge." (Romans 7:21-23)


I can't make promises for I know I will only break them
I don't want to be a liar but that's all I can seem to do
I want to live right, but I can't

So where does that leave me?
How do I feed a hunger I know I have
When all I keep doing is walking away from it?

"I've tried everything and nothing helps. I'm at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn't that the real question?

The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different." (Romans 7:24-25)


Praise God for I am speechless
My words have been echoed in the centuries, the millennia
And still they continue to reverberate off the walls of time
Oh we are a broken people
And we know not what we do

"Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering.
And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us,

who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit."
(Romans 8:1-4)

posted by Unknown @ 8:20 AM