Jordan Mentz

This life is a dark ocean/and I cannot see the rocks underneath the surface/at night I cannot see when the waves are coming/but when I am looking upon the horizon/for something to provide me with/a shimmer of hope/in the midst of this confusion/

You are my lighthouse/and I can see you/when the waves are crushing me/and I know that there is light amidst/admist the heartache the times when it seems to stormy/the lighthouse provides me with a beacon of hope.

Help me Lord to see the lighthouse/when I feel like giving up on life/help me to see the rocks under the surface/because if I get caught on them/I don’t know what I would do/I know it would give me more to trust you with/If this really was reality

I know you are the hope/in the sea of life I am sitting in/I know you are the light in this ocean I am swimming in/and I don’t know how to explain/all the pain I haven’t let you have control of/

Lord you died upon Calvary,
I ask myself did you do this for me?
There are many times I wonder,
Did I take what I could and did I steal your thunder?
When I look at the cross and see you dying
I cannot see because I am too busy crying.
I don’t know why your love was so great
You rescued me from living in a stagnant state.
There are many times when I mess up
But your love overflows and fills my cup.
When you gave your son to die for me,
I asked the question this love how can it be?
There was love crucified on the tree,
The reason was so that I could be free
Three days later love rose again,
The reality hit me, love died for my sin.
Lord on Calvary, you crucified your son to give me life
Now I see there is so much more than a spoon, fork and knife.
I cannot understand why you couldn’t wave a wand,
Or say a word and create me from the grains of sand.
On the cross death did not win,
You have forgiven me time and time again.
You died so that I may live with you,
There are times when I forget to do the things you’ve called me to.
The times are getting hard and I feel like giving up,
The walk is getting tougher, but carry me and fill my cup.
What greater love has no man than this,
How many times do I deny you with a kiss?