I just want to please my God and my family,
But it's like I'm chained by my sin and my failings.
Every time I do something wrong
Another link in the chain is gone:
Taking away my freedom,
Taking me away from your kingdom.
And soon I am pinned,
Pinned beneath the weight of all my sin.
It is crushing my heart and killing my soul.
And I can't do anything because sin is in control – of me.
Then I cry out “God save me!”
But I falsely think “He can't hear me. He's not even listening.”
But then I see
Him in all of His glory,
He came down to me,
He took off my burden and He set me free.
Now here I am for the world to see.
Now no longer chained by sin,
Now forever longing Him
Because He gave me my freedom
And that's only one thing that He's done – for me.
A prisoner I no longer have to be,
And that's exactly why I want to be
A servant to the King.
I want Him to hold me forever
And never let me go.
I want Him to captivate my heart
And capture my soul.
Because as soon as I escape
I become like an ape.
Not knowing what is best for me,
I run to the first good thing I see.
And that first “good thing”
It's like the first link,
And again it begins chain me.
And when I see, it's already too late for me,
Or at least that's what I think.
But my awesome God is awesome again,
And He will save me over and over 'cause that's what He said He'd do – for me.
And again I go from prisoner of the sin to servant of the King,
And there is no where else that I would rather be
Because while the devil points out all my discrepancies,
God looks past all my sin, all my failings.
In fact God loves all of us so much that He sent his Son,
So that all we can say now is “It is finished” “It is done”.
Sin is dead and buried in the grave
Because the grave is where my Jesus did not stay:
He is alive in His Word and in me and in you,
And the truth is my brothers and sisters: He is coming soon.
See I am blessed because I realized something:
That I am powerless to change my life,
But to Him I can give every right
And I do,
Because He is the Way, the Light, and the Truth.
And with that in mind
I am content and satisfied
Because even if I have nothing on this earth,
I have what's worth more than the richest man's worth.
And no matter how many times, this I forget,
No matter how many times I fail because “I can handle it”:
God will always reach down from His throne above all,
And He will always pick me up every time I fall.
For this reason we can stand and rejoice
And it doesn't matter if the neighbors complain about the noise,
Because the more people that hear the better
Because the best news of all is His, right down to the letter.
And right now there are far too many people that are still chained,
Far too many people that don't know His grace.
So we should run to the four corners of the earth like it's a race,
Saying, every where we go,
That “He has bought my soul.
“He paid for me with His blood and He paid for you too,
“But He still gives us a right to choose
“Because He wants our love to be real,
“But how can you not love Him with zeal?
“How can your love not be true,
“When you think about what He has done and what He will do – for you?”.
I now think upon the days when I was bound by sin,
I think of how often I so easily gave in,
And I ask “How stupid was I
“To run away from the love that was right before my eyes?”
But it's not good to dwell on the past,
Simply because of some little known facts:
God, our Heavenly Father, sent His Son – for you.
Jesus Christ, fully man, died – for you.
Jesus Christ, fully God, is alive – for you.
God, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Savior and Messiah, Alpha and Omega, Elohim, Yahweh – loves – you.