What would You have me do?
I want to follow You
Evil is all around
In and without it is found
Prideful, unrighteous and stained
All hopeless until You saved
What blessed atonement
Unfathomable moment
A joyful surrender
By this faithless pretender
This life is but a breath
Give purpose until my death
One life to honor You
That others may know You too
Courage and love and grace
Holy and pure in this place
My soul cries out to You
For none of these I can do
Apart from You my God
My purity is a fraud
My holiness, delusion
My love, selfish ambition
My courage, ignoble
My graciousness, immobile
Oh let my old self die
For in this body I sigh
Groaning for Your return
To no longer sin I yearn
The old has passed away
No longer in sin’s dread sway
In Christ a new creation
Glorious reformation
Oh sanctify Your child
Make holy what is defiled
Let me live what is true
So that in me they see You
~MJ
Reforming Joy 