Monday, October 18, 2010

Given Over

I wrote this song something like a month ago. It provides a little background for my last post. How wonderful it is to serve a God who lifts us up when we come face to face with our own weakness! It is purely out of love that I make my greatest desire to lay my life, my dreams, and my will down on His altar in daily sacrifice. "Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing in God's sight. This is your spiritual act of worship." (Romans 12:1)

Given Over
Words and Music by Stephanie M. Frakes
To Pauline Bjorem for setting these two words resonating in my heart and teaching me, by example, how to live them.

I've fought this battle
A thousand times before
And still I always wonder
Just what I'm fighting for
It's just so foolish
To think it's up to me
To scale the heights of love
Or delve the depths of peace

And then I feel the earth against my knees
And it's clear that I am flesh
And I am weak

But that's when You lift me
To rise on eagles' wings
When I've nothing left to offer
But all You offer me
My life here on Your altar
A humble offering
It's all You've given me
Given over

Words are so easy
Falling from my lips
Until I start to wonder
How then shall I live?
The moment I realize
To live what I believe
Requires so much more
Than songs and poetry

And then I feel the earth against my knees
And it's clear that I am flesh
And I am weak

But that's when You lift me
To rise on eagles' wings
When I've nothing left to offer
But all You offer me
My life here on Your altar
A humble offering
It's all You've given me
Given over
To Your power, to Your love
Given over
To Your presence, it's enough
Given over
To Your glory, to Your will
Given over

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