Weak from the journey, the long travelling days/ Hungry to worship, to join in the praise/ Shock mad with anger that burned on His face/ As He entered the wasteland of that barren place
Chorus:
And the Lamb is a Lion who’s roaring with rage/At the empty religion that’s filling their days/ They’ll flee from the hug of the Carpenter’s strong arm/ And come to know the scourging anger of the Lord
Priests and the merchants demanded some proof/ For their hearts were hardened and blind to the Truth/ But Satan’s own law is to sell and to buy/ But God’s only way is to give and to die
– Repeat Chorus-
The noise and confusion gave way to His word At last sacred silence so God could be heard…
Michael Card
Why?
Poem of Your Life
The Bible tells us that each of our lives tell a story. We are like masterpieces of God’s artistry. The greek word is poiema, from which we get our English word “poem”.
- We are God’s poems. (Ephesians 2.10)
- We are living epistles (2 Corinthians 3.3).
In this video Phil Keaggy joins Michael Card to play Poem of Your Life, a Celtic-ish piece from Card’ album Poiema.
Life is a song we must sing with our days/A poem with meaning more than words can say/A painting with colors no rainbow can tell/A lyric that rhymes either heaven or hell
We are living letters that doubt desecrates/We’re the notes of the song of the chorus of faith/God shapes every second of our little lives/And minds every minute as the universe waits by
CHORUS: The pain and the longing/The joy and the moments of light/Are the rhythm and rhyme/The free verse of the poem of life
So look in the mirror and pray for the grace/To tear off the mask, see the art of your face/Open your ear lids to hear the sweet song/Of each moment that passes and pray to prolong
Your time in the ball of the dance of your days/Your canvas of colors of moments ablaze/With all that is holy/With the joy and the strife/With the rhythm and rhyme of the poem of your life/With the rhythm and rhyme of the poem of your life
The Gentle Healer
God’s Own Fool
It seems I’ve imagined Him all of my life
As the wisest of all of mankind
But if God’s Holy wisdom is foolish to men
He must have seemed out of His mindFor even His family said He was mad
And the priests said a demon’s to blame
But God in the form of this angry young man
Could not have seemed perfectly saneChorus:
When we in our foolishness thought we were wise
He played the fool and He opened our eyes
When we in our weakness believed we were strong
He became helpless to show we were wrong
And so we follow God’s own fool
For only the foolish can tell-
Believe the unbelievable
And come be a fool as wellSo come lose your life for a carpenter’s son
For a madman who died for a dream
And you’ll have the faith His first followers had
And you’ll feel the weight of the beam
So surrender the hunger to say you must know
Have the courage to say “I believe”
For the power of paradox opens your eyes
And blinds those who say they can seeChorus:
When we in our foolishness thought we were wise
He played the fool and He opened our eyes
When we in our weakness believed we were strong
He became helpless to show we were wrong
So we follow God’s own Fool, For only the foolish can tell
Believe the unbelievable, And come be a fool as well
Things We Leave Behind
There sits Simon foolish and wise
Proudly he’s tending his nets
Jesus calls and the boat drifts away
All that he owns he forgetsMore than the nets he abandoned that day
He found that his pride was soon fading awayIt’s hard to imagine the freedom we find
From the things we leave behindMatthew was mindful of taking the tax
Pressing the people to pay
Hearing the call he responded in faith
And followed the light and the wayLeaving the people so puzzled he found
The greed in his heart was no longer aroundEvery heart needs to be set free
From possessions that press in so tight
Freedom is not found in the things that we own
It’s the power to do what is rightWith Jesus our only possession
Giving becomes our delight
We can’t imagine the freedom we find
From the things we leave behindWe show a love for the world in our lives
Worshipping goods we possess
Jesus said lay all your treasures aside
And love God above all the restWhen we say no to the things of the world
We open our hearts to the love of the Lord
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GRACE & PEACE 