Keeping the Law

To keep God's law, an impossible task,
He calls to righteousness like his own.
Ill equipped to perform such a task,
How can we prove we are his own?

Overcome by such a thought,
Motionless, like stone we stand
As if dead, void of thought,
Destined to remain where we stand.

Darkness surrounds us as perpetual night
Any hope we had, has long since gone.
Our hearts seem cold like a winter night
Any warmth in our soul, completely gone.

Yearning for help with how to live
Searching every corner of the world
Finding only our inability to live
By any standard of rightness in the world.

What has been lost seems we cannot find.
Eludes us as we walk thru life.
Longing for that elusive peace of mind
Can it ever be found in this life?

Is this where you stand,
The cloud you live under,
Life so dark you can barely see your hand?
Come see a new sign to live under!

A place where darkness is overcome by light.
Transformation takes place in your heart.
This light drives away the perpetual night.
Stand with me and renew your heart.

Beneath the cross
Power to change from sacrifice
This place, this lonely cross
Our savior died eternal sacrifice.

Here God defined glory
His son gave his life for all.
Joining the Father in eternal glory
So that we could be rescued from the fall.


As God Speaks
Patrick Levi Whiteley
November 5, 2009