The Blues

Is this the New Year or just another night?
Is this the new fear or just another fright?
Is this the new tear or just another desperation?

So easy to feel all alone and pass it off as a fad.

Is this the finger or just another fist?
Is this the kingdom or just a hit n' miss?
A misdirection, most in all this desperation

I know I'm not alone...but right now I'm even confused on the issues. Things I spoke so surely about a week ago...now I hesitate...what was I so worked up about.

Is this what they call freedom?
Is this what you call pain?
Is this what they call discontented fame?

Maybe the world is just this way...maybe I can't expect anything more.

It'll be a day like this one
When the world caves in
When the world caves in
When the world caves in

But more is still beckoning. And it won't stop beckoning.

I'm singing this one like a broken piece of glass
From broken arms an' broken noses in the back
Is this the New Year or just another desperation?

"So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his words as God did from His. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience"
~Hebrews 4:9-11

You're pushing till you're shoving
You bend until you break
Till you stand on the broken fields where our fathers lay

"Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you receive what is promised. For, 'Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in his.' But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls."
~Hebrews 10:35-39

It'll be a day like this one
When the world caves in
When the world caves in
When the world caves in
When the world caves in
When the world caves in
When the world caves in

And He said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you." And as He spoke to me, the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet and I heard Him speaking to me. And He said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day....And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions. Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks...But you, son of man, hear what I say to you."
~Ezekiel 2:1-3,6a,8a

There's nothing here worth saving,
Is no one here at all?
Is there any net left that could break our fall?

"But you, gird up your loins; arise, and say to them everything that I have commanded you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them. And I, behold I make you this day a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land. They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, declares Jehovah, to deliver you."
~Jeremiah 1:17-19

It'll be a day like this one
When the sky falls down and the hungry and poor and deserted are found
Are you discontented?
Have you been pushing hard?
Have you been through and down this broken house of cards?

I know what I have to do, but I'm afraid. But there is no more time for being afraid.

It'll be a day like this one
When the world caves in
When the world caves in
When the world caves in

Is there nothing left now?
Nothing left to sing
Are there any left who haven't kissed the enemy?
Is this the New Year or just another desperation?

Just as I could find you, do the wicked never lose?
Is there any honest song to sing besides these blues?
And nothing is okay
Till the world caves in
Till the world caves in
Till the world caves in
Till the world caves in
Till the world caves in
Until the world caves in
Until the world caves in
Until the world caves in
Until the world caves in
Until the world caves in
Until the world caves in

~"The Blues" by Switchfoot

What if today could be the day we rise up and find that we are strong?

"An appaling and horrible thing has happened in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?"~Jeremiah 5:30-31

~sojourner