Jordan Mentz

Every good and perfect gift comes from above
I see your everlasting love within your arms
You never change like the shifting shadows
Call me out of the boat let me come to you
The ocean of life is stormy, but you are my peace
As I step out of my comfort zone,
into the land of the unknown
I know you won’t change, you don’t see the chances I’ve blown
If living for you was as easy as people make it out to be
Then everyone wouldn’t know the difference
Our trials are bringing us one step closer to being with you

The sun changes positions casting different shadows but not you
you are always constant, and you are the light that came for the darkness
Though I feel like you change your location, it is because I have
not taken steps toward you, but I still long to be different
because you have changed me and made me the way you want
Teach me to rest in your arms despite the shifting shadows of the world

17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17

I have been wanting to give you my heart
I have messed up so much, I didn’t know where to start
If life was a rose it would be thirsty
I have ran away from the living water my soul is parched
I didn’t mean to hide anything but you showed me everything
I had been keeping from you thinking that you were king of

I am giving you my withered heart
You have given me a taste of living water
You have given me a glimpse of your splendor
I had everything but you, but now I want nothing but you
My life was a testament of the prodigal son
your arms welcomed me into your family

I look for parallels in my life today, and how it was back then
It is then I realized that the Bible you wrote was for me
I was born blind, and now I am seeing was once dying
now I am living, was once in bondage to sin, but your
death paid the price and you showed me your message so freeing
I don’t know where I went, but you sought me out

Inspired by “Relient K’s” song “Deathbed” off the Album “Fivescore and seven years ago”.