Wilderness



The rain falls on the righteous and the wicked
Mine is not to reason why this is
In this I rest in this I find my refuge
That my thoughts and ways are not His
I spend my life on looking up the answers
It's rare that I can't find a reason why
But reasons fail at children without mothers
His plan is more than I can know

Have you ever held a doubt
What this life is all about
Have you questioned all the things that seem
important to us
Do you really wanna know
Or are you a little scared
You're afraid that God is not exactly what you'd have
Him be
What should I hold to and what should I do
How do I know if anything's true
I'm somewhere in-between Canaan and Egypt
A place called the wilderness

I'm not one who always trusts their feelings
I don't believe in what you call blind faith
But faith that you can do all that you promised
And you said it all works for good
It's safe to say I don't see the big picture
I can't see the forest for the trees
And if five hundred lives
Were mine to get to know
You all could be spent on just this

(bridge)

God do you really understand what it's like to be a man
Have you ever felt the weight of loving all the
things you Hate
Have You struggled have You worried
How can You sympathize

I have spoken much too soon put my hand over
my mouth
I can't contend with You
Your ways are so much higher
And we pass through the fire that Christ endured
before us
When You were in the wilderness


Band Note: I owe a great debt to Roger Wagner, a truly Godly man who sacrifices
of himself to come on the road and disciple us. One of his Bible studies
was about the book of Exodus where the Israelites are delivered
from Egypt by Moses and head for Canaan, the land of the promise.
To get there however, they have to pass through the wilderness, a
place of testing and hardship. In the same way we have been set free
from the place of bondage (sin) and are on our way to the land of
promise (heaven), but in the meantime we have to walk in the wilderness
where we too are tested and endure hardships, where not everything
makes sense. Some will turn back to Egypt and some will persevere.
I God unfair to expect so much from us? Let's not forget that
Christ Himself walked where we do now.


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