Tides - Meadows

Capsized and taking on water,

my life raft was going under.

I won’t accept that I’ve put myself here.

Some things never change,

and one thing remained the same,

is when You’d show Your face,

I always managed to turn and look away.

Shifting tides, and crashing waves,

those currents pulled me away,

further and further away.

Ever changing just like the sea,

I put my faith in things that could be seen.

But I know that You’re still there,

the waves still know Your name.

I filled my cup up to the brim,

with a poison known as bitterness,

down the hatch I opened wide,

I chased it down with pride.

O to grace how great a debtor,

daily I’m constrained to be.

Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,

bind my wandering heart to Thee.

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,

prone to leave the God I love.

Here’s my heart, Lord, take and seal it,

seal it for Thy courts above.

'Cause better is one day in Your courts,

than thousands elsewhere.