I know to some degree
The pain in his soul
I know to some degree
The pain that he knows
It rips a tear in me
Rends in my heart a hole
His body has life
His spirit is dead
His mind's strife
Fills him with dread
And he wants to die
Living on lead
My spirit screams,
"Save him, my God!
Rescue him
From his demons
And bring to life
This life against you."
But I know
That he deserves it
No more than I.
I deserve death
Rather than life.
But his material life
Is so full of death
I'd give my life
To give him his
"Lord, my Lord,
I want him to live
I kills me he isn't
And I try to praise you through it
Try to glorify you."
It's so hard to walk around
Friends with a dead man
Hand-in-hand with a ghost
Or, more rightly, a corpse
I drag him to church
I drag him to the Word
But you know what the dead can't do?
Listen.
His body has life
His spirit is dead
His mind's strife
Fills him with dread
And he wants to die
Living on lead
It destroys me
That he
Suffers so greatly
"Destroy me, Lord!
If that's what it takes.
Because I know I can't save him.
Only you
Only you.
But it kills me to see
The way he
Drowns in the air
Cannot breathe
The life-giving streams
Of the Word's
Blood, cannot see
That he's
Missing the point,
That he's
Lost, caught up
In the currents of this world
And forsaking
Your sweet grace.
Lord, I pray,
Give him grace.
I know that's selfish of me
To ask You to pardon
Any single wretched sinner,
But it was selfish of me
To ask you to forgive
A sinner such as I!
Lord, is it selfish of me
To want him to have life?
To want him to be free of sin
And give up this life of lead he leads?
Bring him to You, I plead!
Pull him to You.
Because as much as he deserves his pain
It rips a tear in me
Rends in my heart a hole
And I don't know
Any remedy for him
Other than
Your salvation."
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AN:
If you know Jesus Christ as your Savior, then let us praise God together!
If not, then I pray that you come to recognize Him as the only way of salvation from your sins, which earn you God's wrath and just punishment in Hell. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no one will go to Heaven but through repentance from their sins and believing in Him.
If you have any questions, comment or PM me! I'd love to talk. <3
God bless!
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