Forgive

You have given all that you are and all that you have

that you might save a wandering soul like me

All I have to do is ask and receive this simple gift

But yet I keep wandering, searching, and looking

in everything and everyone I meet 

Fooling myself that I might find what I seek

and yet in the end I turn back to you because to my heart

You hold the key and you hold the power to unlock the

darkened caverns of my past  

You alone can repair and bring into the light the darkness

That keeps me captive in my own selfish prison

Your word is living and active

Your word is like a double-edged sword

It can slice through the lies that I have been tortured with for so long

It can replace the lies with your truth

I feel I am on the path towards freedom—leaving these things behind 

Things that I have held on to for so long 

I turn around and watch them disappear into your blinding light

I feel your warmth surround me as the layers drip off me

Tumbling back into the darkness from where they came

I am lost without you and with you I will never be lost again

Who am I to punish myself—what pride must I have to not 

Accept this gift of freedom, a simple gift that cost your life

What love you must have, your life for mine 

I accept this gift of forgiveness that is worth more than riches

It is worth more than life itself because in believing I can truly live

Knit me back together for I am in your womb now

knit me so that I am whole again—so that I may be who you created me to be

You heard my fits of rage 

You see the horrors in my mind

You felt my pain and agony

You heard me when I cried out

You walked in my shoes

You were tortured

You were crucified

You were beaten

Yet you endured it for me

You saved me

You freed me

You forgave me

You love me

You are Jesus Christ the son of the Living God