You called me yours

A long time since my last blog post but there you go!  May I ask you a question?  Who are you?  Are you your job?  Are you a husband or a wife?  Are you loved by friends or colleagues?  I find all too easily I'm satisfied to be just that - defined by my job, being a husband or liked by people.  It's so easy to settle for something easy to see.

Whatever goes through my mind though, I'm thankful for one thing above all others; I am God's.  I am reminded that I am his child.  I am reminded that aside from all these other things that I could try to define my life by, that I am his.  First and foremostly, I am a child of God.  That, though SO easy to forget, is by far the most comforting, encouraging, emboldening and scandalously crazy fact of my life. Nothing else defines me better than a loser loved by the almighty God.  This song goes some way to reflect my loser-ish nature, yet God's scandalous love in spite of this.

V1

You know I never knew

All that you actually were

Not just the lies I’d heard

But you were so much more

A man and God combined

Could this be true at all?

Could this be true at all?

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You saw the worse in me

But chose me anyway.

You knew the secrets I hid

You gave yourself for me.

You heard me shout aloud

Against the things you gave

And yet you called me yours

And yet you called me yours.

V2

I heard the things you said

They took me by surprise

They showed who I am

Not just the guilt inside

To learn I was your child

A person loved by you

A person loved by you

V3

I stood up on that hill

Took the easy way

Picked up the crowd’s own chant

Threw it in your face

I knew your true identity

It was too much for me

It was too much for me.

V4

I watched you on that hill

Take all the flak for me

Bore my very sin

Upon that cross for me

Died for every thing I’d done

Instead of me

Instead of me

Final refrain

You called me yours.

You called me yours.

TheWeeScottie