What does it mean to yield? How do I do it?
Do I have to stop,
or do I merge into what’s already flowing?
Do I just let God plant a seed in me and let it keep growing?
Or do I stop and see what’s coming, hoping I’ll make the right choice somehow?
What do I do God?
There’s so many things always pulling, I get lost and forget which way I was rowing.
But then I see your signs and remember that there’s something more worth yielding for.
Something more worth giving my life for.
I know the truths in me and I’ve found something worth fighting for.
Worth dying for.
but
I’ve never cried Lord, more than when I’m on the floor.
On my hands and knees begging you please to hear my pleas.
Because this world gets too heavy, and the burden doesn’t just hang on my back.
It slips in the cracks that have formed over time
because this broken soul tries to climb without a harness.
This broken soul tries to be someone he’s not.
Lies, steals, lusts,
but still gives it all he’s got.
This broken soul can’t carry the burdens of the world.
They’re too heavy to hold,
when the same hands and back back are trying to carry a sister who was addicted to crack, who’s marriage has fallen to pieces and she’s trying to stick them together and get it back
but she’s forgotten that you’re the thread that keeps it all together.
Without it, we’re dead.
This broken soul tries to hide the lust but whenever no one’s looking, he falls back into old habits and selfish desires that requires him to de-humanize women and see them only as things that bring him satisfaction.
There’s something so terribly wrong with that.
Something needs to change and fast.
And it’s this same mouth that lies and slanders because he wants people to like him and so he puts on another face in hopes to hide away the toxic black that builds up when he forgets to yield.
When I forget that there’s beauty in the brokenness.
When we finally come up and confess.
That we’re all a bloody broken mess.
and then we hope for more because we’re told to score.
but we never make the cut,
there’s few that do.
but when they’re through,
they’re broken too.
There’s beauty in the brokenness
Someone loves this broken mess.
We’re stuck safe in our heads,
at least, that’s what we think until it all caves in or someone breaks the code and walks right in.
Then we’re left lingering in a place we can’t escape, and we have to accept that it may
never
be
the same.
At some point we have to admit that we don’t have it all figured out, and listen to the cries of your heart.
Shout, let it out!
There’s beauty in the brokenness.
The one who loves that broken mess,
is the same one who can put it all back together.
He can make it better.
Heal the wounds that tear in rough weather.
He'll fix the locks,
reset the clocks
and turn back time to when your doors weren’t closed,
when do you suppose?
you’ll have enough strength,
enough courage
to last the length it takes to show that you have nothing?
it's takes everything
to show that you have nothing.
And realize that it’s when we show we’re broken,
share we share that token,
that we become everything he wants us to be.
When we finally yield,
slow down,
stop,
look around,
we’ll remember that we don’t actually need to go anywhere.
We don’t need to do anything.
Because no matter what you do,
where you go
or how many times you’ve fallen down
no matter how many times you’ve dirtied the gown
He loves these bruised
hurting,
damaged,
anxious,
depressed,
lustful,
broken messes
and nothing will change that.
No more, no less.
So, what does it mean to yield?
remember,
There's beauty in the brokenness.