While I was browsing through CDs at LifeWay bookstores in Austin last September, I came across the debut album of Sidewalk Prophets on a preview sale for US$5. Went back to the Freeburgs', checked the album out on iTunes and ALL the songs sounded good. So went back the next day to get it. Since then, it's been the most played album on my iPod Nano and almost permanently inserted into my car's disc player, rivalled only recently by WOW Hits 2010. These 7 months or so, "These Simple Truths" has been like a mouthpiece of God to me - with the lyrics of every song speaking into my life, the different melodies ministering to my soul. They were there in September as I walked the McAlpines' neighbourhood in Lubbock, when God gave the Jeremiah 31:21a verse for Charge Up! & Bolt. And they were there today at the end of Passover as I drove back from Penang to PJ, when God reminded me why He laid down His life.
All your pain
Will be made mine
All your troubles
The tears you cry
Give it up
All that binds
I will place it on my shoulders
And up this hill I’ll climb
Father, give me strength
I know there is no other way
I lay down my life for you
This is the moment when all will be made new
I know that you don’t understand
But this is part of a greater plan
So I lay down my life for you
This is love
That had to bleed
To bring you mercy
To set you free
You are mine
I am yours
And I will wear your burdens
Just like this crown of thorns
I will take your place
I know there is no other way
I lay down my life for you
This is the moment when all will be made new
I know that you don’t understand
But this is part of a greater plan
So I lay down my life for you
Give me all your pride
Give me all your fears
Give me all your secrets
Give me all your tears
Give me all you doubt
Give me all your shame
Watch them wash away
Watch them wash away
Give me all your fears
Give me all your secrets
Give me all your tears
Give me all you doubt
Give me all your shame
Watch them wash away
In Jesus’ name
I lay down my life for you
This is the moment when all will be made new
Though I know that you don’t understand
These scars are part of a greater plan
And I lay down my life for you
Arms stretched out
Upon this tree
To show true love
To set you free
"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."
