Repentance

Promises have been broken
Oaths I swore upon my own flesh
Your heart I have broken again
How long will I continue doing this?

My heart bleeds
My soul cries out
The stench of my deeds emanate everywhere
The vileness choking the life out of me

All pride is stripped away
All of me bared
There is nothing left unseen
All nooks and crannies of my being exposed

Apologies are not enough
For forgiveness has already come
A change of heart is what is needed
To bring me back to You

How do I change something so callused?
How do I bring back something that is lost?
Where am I to find redemption
When I threw You love out the door?

Nothing I can offer will be of worth
Indeed, there is nothing I possess
All I have is my soul
Broken, battered, smashed into a million pieces

Every wrong thing I do
Brings the lamb back to the slaughter
Many times have I pierced Your side
But You refuse to abandon me

I fall upon a puddle of tears
Yet even as I shed water, You have offered blood
I cry out for all the wretchedness in my life
Yet Your own life was given for me

When will I get rid of my selfishness
To realize that it never has been about me
But all for You who washed me clean
Love was executed for freedom

Your blood sealed me whole
As firmly as the nails bound me to You
You have taken me back as many times as I have fallen
A Father taking His prodigal child back in His arms


No words can say how much I need You
Nothing can express how much I love You
I am nothing without You
Take me back into Your arms

Everytime I turn to You
You wash my slate clean with Your blood
Wiping it with Your own flesh
And I fall down on my knees again