My old ways keep creeping back
I keep praying I'll overcome them
Nothing's too powerful
To stop my quest for the Lord
But with old friends around me
My old ways
They still surround me
No where to go
But home to the Bible
No one understands that I just can't
Carry on the way I used to be.
It's a hard game to play
When the world remembers your past mistakes
When the world wants you to be who you were
And you just want to be new.
Those are hard words to say
When the world thinks everything's still okay
But you took the time to change your views around.
I changed my perspective
I didn't expect it to be so hard
Just to live in the Lord
And I worry sometimes
That I'll fall beneath the pressures of them all.
Every day is a challange
Every challange a blessing
Still, each guilty night
I find myself confessing
Am I not good enough for Jesus?
But everyone is loved by Jesus
God's open arms stretch out to reach us
Love's in the air
And it makes those gestures fly on by.
Jesus is living
I know this is true
He fills me
Consumes me
I welcome Him to
Jesus surrounds me
I just can't defy such a beautiful name
He cured my soul
And I'll never be the same
Jesus is living.
By Jenni Orton
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