What the Gospel Looks Like
Bless me with a somber
gaze upon my brow
Break my back and bruise me black
as I turn toward the plow
Give me sweet simplicity
Faith's brave truthful words
leave behind the lights and fights
the screams to beat the world's
Lose the smoke, it's all a joke
the costumes and the crowds
the passion fades, the music stays
the hunger like a cloud
Never to remember the glory of the cross
Fail now to understand the beauty in the loss
Gifts and pleasure satiate
Fodder for the want
Fail now to appreciate
the price with which you're bought
Profane what is holy
pearls before the swine
"My Father's house a den of thieves"
and this is all a sign…..
Fall away, deep love wax cold
burn away the dross
as it did those years ago
before He bore the cross
Prophecy won't fail us
It telescopes again
Meanwhile the One who made us
Grieves His people's sin
The Word was born unfettered
it dwelt with us unkempt
the beauty was: "He had no form He had NO comeliness"
So void of all possession no place to lay His head
and We beheld His glory to die there in our stead
There were no lights and music ,save heaven and the angels
Comfort never bothered call and birth came in a stable
The gifts He gave they kept us..but they weren't things we could keep
He's held them as He's left us….here to sow and reap
Gifts may fill an altar
lights may dress a stage
but humanity WILL falter
and Christ remains the same
He is ever humble and He looks humble too
His servant heart will not start to offer what the world will to you
I believe in Jesus
not a church and not a faith
I believe He sees us
and doesn't want us to be fake
Because the world is passing and quickly fading away
The Master now is asking for us to present what stays the same
It is NOT smoke and mirrors
It is not sounds and lights.
The Gospel needs no dressing up
it needs no "Bragging rights"
Perversion of the Truth
can often look real fancy
but when the thrill finally wears off
it leaves people awfully antsy.
Think hard of 12 disciples
who left it ALL behind
He made it all that way on purpose
so the Gospel would shine BRIGHT
If my faith is in the presentation?
If my faith is in the show?
If my faith is in what God can make me?
How He can help me grow?
Then I've never really met Him
I've never been in love
For when I fathom who He is
I can do nought but love
Hungry? are you really?
Only He will satisfy
Dance and Riffs and lights and gigs??
They'll leave you high and dry
But HE will take you lower
thank you ever dreamed you'd go
and grace will lead you over
the mountains you must go
You never knew you wanted
struggle fear and strain
you never knew you needed
to cling so tightly to the power of His name.
Love cannot be easy
asking that you die
give up all aesthetic wants
and leave your fears behind
My Father's house is empty
save the store of heaven's treasure
and when the worlds call tempts me
reminds me of His right hand's pleasure
Call us back
don't fade to black
the grey can barely stand
in by gone days
the prophets bade
you crucified the lot
So make your choice so carefully
The crowd's not often right.
Ignore the glitz the lofty glamour and look for black and white.
It's empty, lonely far off over there….but that room is filled with LIGHT.
JM 2013
gaze upon my brow
Break my back and bruise me black
as I turn toward the plow
Give me sweet simplicity
Faith's brave truthful words
leave behind the lights and fights
the screams to beat the world's
Lose the smoke, it's all a joke
the costumes and the crowds
the passion fades, the music stays
the hunger like a cloud
Never to remember the glory of the cross
Fail now to understand the beauty in the loss
Gifts and pleasure satiate
Fodder for the want
Fail now to appreciate
the price with which you're bought
Profane what is holy
pearls before the swine
"My Father's house a den of thieves"
and this is all a sign…..
Fall away, deep love wax cold
burn away the dross
as it did those years ago
before He bore the cross
Prophecy won't fail us
It telescopes again
Meanwhile the One who made us
Grieves His people's sin
The Word was born unfettered
it dwelt with us unkempt
the beauty was: "He had no form He had NO comeliness"
So void of all possession no place to lay His head
and We beheld His glory to die there in our stead
There were no lights and music ,save heaven and the angels
Comfort never bothered call and birth came in a stable
The gifts He gave they kept us..but they weren't things we could keep
He's held them as He's left us….here to sow and reap
Gifts may fill an altar
lights may dress a stage
but humanity WILL falter
and Christ remains the same
He is ever humble and He looks humble too
His servant heart will not start to offer what the world will to you
I believe in Jesus
not a church and not a faith
I believe He sees us
and doesn't want us to be fake
Because the world is passing and quickly fading away
The Master now is asking for us to present what stays the same
It is NOT smoke and mirrors
It is not sounds and lights.
The Gospel needs no dressing up
it needs no "Bragging rights"
Perversion of the Truth
can often look real fancy
but when the thrill finally wears off
it leaves people awfully antsy.
Think hard of 12 disciples
who left it ALL behind
He made it all that way on purpose
so the Gospel would shine BRIGHT
If my faith is in the presentation?
If my faith is in the show?
If my faith is in what God can make me?
How He can help me grow?
Then I've never really met Him
I've never been in love
For when I fathom who He is
I can do nought but love
Hungry? are you really?
Only He will satisfy
Dance and Riffs and lights and gigs??
They'll leave you high and dry
But HE will take you lower
thank you ever dreamed you'd go
and grace will lead you over
the mountains you must go
You never knew you wanted
struggle fear and strain
you never knew you needed
to cling so tightly to the power of His name.
Love cannot be easy
asking that you die
give up all aesthetic wants
and leave your fears behind
My Father's house is empty
save the store of heaven's treasure
and when the worlds call tempts me
reminds me of His right hand's pleasure
Call us back
don't fade to black
the grey can barely stand
in by gone days
the prophets bade
you crucified the lot
So make your choice so carefully
The crowd's not often right.
Ignore the glitz the lofty glamour and look for black and white.
It's empty, lonely far off over there….but that room is filled with LIGHT.
JM 2013
Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13 but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole worldas a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. Matthew 24:12
11 You will show me the path of life;
In Your presence is fullness of joy;
At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. - Psalm 16:11
In Your presence is fullness of joy;
At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. - Psalm 16:11
But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” Luke 9:62
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.- Isaiah 53
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.- Isaiah 53
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