Jordan Mentz

I was once lost/but you have found me/I was once forsaken/by what this world offered. Then you have shown me what it means to be comforted. I was once so far away from you/but you have drawn my heart close/I was once so concerned/about the affairs of this world/now I can feel my desires my heart/beginning to change.

I was once living in sin/but I am asking for you to call me home again/I was once a leper/but the disease seemed to reach/much deeper within my heart. Then you healed me from within/I was once blind to everything of you/then I cried out for understanding/and now I am beginning to see.

I was once broken and bleeding/please heal my soul/I was once so on fire for you/I am asking you/to rekindle that same flame/I was once holding onto shattered dreams. Then I gave you my desires/I gave you my heart/I do not know where to begin. You have rescued me from sin again.

I was once seeking things not of you/but I can see you changing my heart/I can feel your hand of healing over my life/nothing of this world can even compare to you/I know that you are chasing after me/even when I am running the other direction/you have fixed my eyes on you/help me to seek.

I am trying to fly/high above on eagles wings/I feel weighted down at times/by bricks that I have created/things in my life/I find so hard to surrender. I have been holding on to things way too long/it is time to give you my burdens/it is time to give you my hidden sin/I am seeing that my sin/is keeping me from flying/because I refuse to give you the reigns. So I am laying down all my bricks/at the foot of the cross/I cast them off and confess them to you/I want to get wings/so I can soar above the world/look beyond what the human eye can see. When will I learn to fly/will it can it be before I die/because these bricks I weigh myself down with/are slowly killing me on the side/I don’t know how to live any more/because I have confessed it all before/but I know deep within my heart/you have taken my sin away from me You have reminded me/you have taken my bricks and freed me/when I confessed them/you threw them into the abyss. I am taken aback because I do not understand/how you could take my sin/give me a new heart/and create within me/wings to fly and not grow weary. I cannot describe the freedom/that you have given me/this is so different/I don’t know how to respond/a love that frees me/is a thought so foreign to me/ So I am asking/to trade these bricks I have held onto/for wings of love, grace, forgiveness and power. I will not go back to the bricks/that you have forgotten/continue to show me the things that weigh me down. I can fly high because you have come to free me. I can see because you have opened up my eyes/you have cleared my cloudy vision.