This world we live in, filled with promise.
The countless ways that I could advance.
But knowing I’d destroy all that I worked for,
I would never deserve a second chance.
No one could tell me how to live.
My entire life was all pretend.
I’d get so much, with nothing to give.
Was this the future, or a dead end?
How many ways did I worship myself?
My only language was telling lies.
Yet regardless of all the world’s pleasures,
every last dream of mine would die.
Why hold firmly to this life?
It feels so empty. Without any worth.
So I heed the call for a new purpose
from the Son who came to save the earth.
Can the light of the world really help me?
Truly He’s done no evil deed!
My heart can stay hardened for no longer.
I must be willing to let Him plant His seed.
But every day, I can only feel
the lust and greed wanting to return.
Is the love of God my only craving,
or is there something else for which I yearn?
Each moment I live my previous life
is like digging up my own grave.
Why unearth that rotting corpse,
when you have already been saved?
Living by the flesh and not by faith
is like drinking from a dried-up well.
Have you forgotten that guiding light
that led you from the clutches of Hell?
I am no angel, I am no Christ.
I cannot hide away my sins.
But I must never forget that He gave His life.
Through Him can I slay the beast within.
I will fall short for as long as I live,
but never can I set my cross on the ground.
I must always remember the life that He led,
staying faithful for as long as I’m around.