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Thousand Miles (from
back home)
by Caedmon's Call
I have stolen, Lord, let me give
I have left your house a fugitive
I have wandered my own way
Squandered everything you gave
But my dying heart you saved and let me live
I have cursed the air and clenched my fist
I have hungered for your righteousness
I have tried to walk the line
I drew between your heart and mine
But you forgive me every time the mark is missed
So take my broken offering and make me whole
And set my feet upon the road that leads me home
Let me walk as one fixed upon the goal
Even though I've got a thousand miles to go
I have sought your grace in my defense
I have plundered your magnificence
Until my journey is complete
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
That I might sow what I have reaped from your great love
As I struggle for your hand
You use me in ways I can't understand
Take this sinful man and renew me Working through me
"'Thousand Miles' is an attempt to describe
the expectancy and interference experienced in Christian life.
Knowing that God is actively perfecting and conforming us
into the image of Christ is a profoundly hopeful thought,
but when our desperate sinfulness is confronted by the fathomless
grace of our ever-faithful God, our hearts and minds cannot
reconcile His ability to use us to carry out His good and
perfect will in spite of our malignity. So,
we press on, offering what we can but trusting ultimately
in His promise of grace alone to make any good of what we
are able to do this side of Glory." - Aaron Senseman
This song really reflects where I seem to
be at right now. The sin and failings in my life are springing
up and my only hope is that God will take what little I have
to give and use it; that He would "set my feet upon the
road that leads me home."
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