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Rule My Heart Jesse

Yoder

Draw near, El Shaddai


It’s hell down here
I can’t even love You
No matter how I try
I fail God, I fail.
I fail You. I fail those I love
My heart seeks astray
How am I to judge its sole desire?
I am swayed by deceit,
Consumed with inner turmoil
God of my salvation, how am I held captive by my own injustice
Who am I to judge another?
While I crawl, named guilty by these blood soaked hands
Grace, drown me in mercy
For I have gone against the God Almighty

Dear Savior, you see all the countenance I carry,


You see the intoxication I madly inhale
I attempt to soften, I attempt to be real
Lord I long, I long to live prostrated, I long to live alive
Am I even alive? Where have I gone? Where am I? Where am I going to?
How did I ever let these hands… How did I ever let this heart hold You so loosely?!

I am a stranger to this place


Even this body, it’s all a blockade,
This mind has become teamed with our enemy
God You’re all I have,
You’re the only one standing, God,
You’re the only truth in my world

Lord God must I be so incompetent!?


Must I lose the very sense of what makes me, me?
Must I continue intently as I know not to?
How am I to be free of all that shackles me with burdens?
I am weary, dear Redeemer,
This heart is sick of discouragement!
Hold me now, change me now!
I want to be lost in awe of You! All of You!
I gotta lose this self as I find You
Losing this self would be gaining it in Your sight, all God to please You
You hold the entire universe in Your perfect hands,

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Yet You choose to anoint me that I may be pleasing in Your sight!?


¡No hay nadie como Usted! ¡Usted es Señor! Y su gracia es suficiente para mí.
You have healed my heart, my one Love, heal me now?
Daddy, may I feel loved in Your embrace? May I feel as precious as Moy is to You?
To this world I am nothing more than another being,
Another “thing” that simply “exists”.
How easy it is to believe all they say when they seem to dominate a physical world,
Too bad You made me much more than a physical being,
or I might have been under their spell
But You, oh Lord, preserve Your children,
You take me beneath Your wing, You guard my heart in Your honor
And You transform all I am into all You created me to be
How mighty is my God, my Father, Lover of my soul?!
One day, I know, all our enemies will no longer stomp this ground,
For their masquerade will surely receive its indulgent earnings
You are God, and You are just.

Let this heart not be meeting a speck of fascination for unrighteousness!


Where is the affection?
The fuel of my loveliness?
Where is my heartening embrace?
My push to vivacity?
I am a precious creation, You told me so.
I am to be loved, Daddy, am I not righteously pursued?!
Father where have I gone? Where am I headed?
I am still falling in the midst of chaos
Disturbances hoard as to filter my sight,
and to their entertainment they laugh in my misery
Each creature lends themselves to change my state of mind
Am I nothing but a burden?
Are my needs rightly needs
Or am I the hypocrite tainting truth?
I’ve called on apathy out of weariness,
When out of weariness I could be fully strengthened in You
Such a humanly habit will destroy me, whereas submission to You brings life

You bring life, You are life. You are beyond all this.
You save my spirit in sunshine,
You raise hope from within an orphan’s eyes
Jesus, You saved my soul, You set me free!
Now, Daddy, won’t You draw near to me…

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Rule My Heart Jesse
Yoder

God Almighty, Spirit of Truth, rule my heart.

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