Shout To The Lord

My jesus, my savior,
Lord, there is none like you.
All of my days, I want to praise,
The wonders of your mighty love.

My comfort, my shelter,
Tower of refuge and strength.
Let every breath, all that I am,
Never cease to worship you.

Chorus:
Shout to the lord, all the earth let us sing.
Power and majesty, praise to the king.
Mountains bow down, and the seas will roar,
At the sound of your name.
I sing for joy at the work of your hands,
Forever I'll love you,
Forever I'll stand.
Nothing compares to the promise I have
In you.

My jesus, my savior.
Lord, there is none like you.
All of my days, I want to praise,
The wonders of your mighty love.

My comfort, my shelter,
Tower of refuge and strength.
Let every breath, all that I am,
Never cease to worship you.

Sadness

Sadness lurks at the recesses of my brain.
Quietly expanding its territory
Until it no longer can be ignored.
I want to push it away.
I want to run from it’s effects.
Afraid it will lead to depression.
Anxious about the way ahead.
Sleep seems to be my only comfort.
A reprieve from the storm.
God where are you?
Where is that Strong tower?
Where is the hope?
My hope is in you.
In desperation I cry.
Help me O God.

You Deliver Me

Deep as the ocean, Bright as rain
This powerful emotion lifts me up above the planes
It's taken me to places I never thought I'd go
Showing me a grace I never thought I'd know

When I feel like I can't go on
You deliver me
When the road is winding and way too long
You deliver me
You deliver me

I feel like a sinner, my sins have been washed clean
I'm absolutely given, this heart has never seen
I must be forgiven sometimes asking why
I was chosen to be given you in this life

When I feel like I can't go on
You deliver me
When the road is winding and way too long
You deliver me
You deliver me

When there's a distance
Between what I am and who I want to be
You deliver me

When I feel like I can't go on
You deliver me
When the road is winding and way too long
You deliver me
You deliver me

When I feel like I can't go on
You deliver me
When the road is winding and way too long
You deliver me
You deliver me

Rich Young Addict

“What must I do to inherit eternal life?” is the question asked by the rich young ruler to Jesus. I have been thinking a lot about this passage lately. Jesus response is very fascinating to me. He begins by pointing this young man to the Law of Moses. It is interesting to me because we know that on this side of grace that the law cannot save you. The keeping of the law is not what brings about transformation. Certainly keeping the law is a good thing but it can lead to a false sense of importance and holiness. Personal holiness is not about keeping the law. I cannot keep enough of the law for long enough to be considered holy nor to be saved from my sin. Holiness is a gift of grace from Jesus. He clothes us with righteousness and holiness. It is his garments that cover us that make us holy and not the things we do. That is a very hard thing for some of us to understand. It certainly was a concept that this young man did not get.
Jesus strikes at the heart of this young man when he says to him to sell all he owned, give the money to the poor and then come and follow HIM. The point he was making here is that it is not the young mans sense of personal holiness or doing the right thing that will gain him eternal life: it will be to surrender to himself to Jesus. Jesus aptly shows this young man that in order to gain eternal life he needs to be owned by him “Come follow me”. Instead the young man reveals that what truly owns his heart is his love for his money, wealth and stuff. That is what owns him. The point is made that money is talked about a lot in scripture because it is the thing that is a popular idol of ours. But it’s not the only one. There are many addictions and which in reality, are many idols.
I have been thinking about my addictions in the context that they own me. My addiction is the thing that I love the most and that is an idol in the way of my relationship with God. Like the rich young ruler I am breaking the first commandment of not having any other gods before the One True King. The way past the addiction is to follow Jesus and put Him first. My love for God must surpass that of my love for the addiction. In fact, my heart needs to change towards the addiction. I need to hate this Sin and see it as Jesus does. God help me to do that. God I want to do that. I need to do that. Help me Lord.

Come Thou Fount

1. Come, thou Fount of every blessing,
tune my heart to sing thy grace;
streams of mercy, never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it,
mount of thy redeeming love.

2. Here I raise mine Ebenezer;
hither by thy help I'm come;
and I hope, by thy good pleasure,
safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
wandering from the fold of God;
he, to rescue me from danger,
interposed his precious blood.

3. O to grace how great a debtor
daily I'm constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the God I love;
here's my heart, O take and seal it,
seal it for thy courts above.