Its been a while, but today was worth writing about…
The pathway is broken
And the signs are unclear
And I dont know the reason why You brought me here
But just because You love me the way that You do
I will go through the valley
If You want me to
Now I’m not who I was
When I took my first step
And I’m clinging to the promise
You’re not through with me yet
So if all of these trials bring me closer to You
I will go through the fire
If You want me to
It may not be the way I would have chosen
When you lead me through a world that’s not my own
But You never said it would be easy
You only said I’ll never go alone
So when the whole world turns against me
And I’m all by myself
And I can’t hear You answer my cries for help
I’ll remember the suffering Your love put You through
And I will go through the valley
If You want me to
When I cross over Jordan I’m gonna sing, I’m gonna shout
I’m gonna look into Your eyes & see You never let me down
So take me on the pathway that leads me home to You
& I will walk through the valley if You want me to
There is something that breaks within the weak human heart along the climb of life. In that moment of desperation, when the uphill battle becomes too much & you know you’re going down…you reach for something–something to get you through, something to save you. Something breaks in that desperate moment, when your heart is so in need of something to hold onto. In that moment you cannot climb. You can’t fight. You can barely breath, so you cling with all of the nothingness left within your heart. You CLING in utter desperation to Jesus and His promises & try to believe that what you are holding onto, in complete vulnerability, will come through. There’s no back up plan. No other options. ALL of your hope rests in the invisible one you are clinging to. & that breaking I mentioned, it comes when you realize that what you are clinging to holds all the potential of success or failure, and you are not even sure of it. There is not a confident intellectually thought out choice to grab ahold of, like a well weighed out investment. No, it is a desperate groping for dear life, like a person drowning in an ocean of violent waves. You don’t see it or feel it & if you are completely honest with yourself you would admit that at times you don’t even know if it is really there and will come through. But in that moment, despite that fear and doubt, it is all you have, your only shot. So you CLING to it, with all your might, hoping that if it doesn’t just choose to come alive & already plan to pull you through that perhaps the power and pathetic-ness of your desperation will bring it to life, awakening its compassion to rescue you, because it is your only hope at living & finishing the journey.
