Song “Sliver of Light”
How’d it get so dark in here?
This hardened heart this conscience seared.
I fortified the space within.
Put up my guard to make sure that no one’s getting in.
I chose this prison on my own.
I felt so confident that my way was the way to go.
I feel my way around the floor.
It’s been so long that I’ve lost sight
and I can’t find the door.
It’s a hopeless situation all this condemnation.
Keeps beating me down, So I can’t turn around.
In this prison of my soul, How I want to be made whole.
I’ve got to use the key but that’ll be the death of me.
Looking back on all my ways.
I used to tell myself that I would hit the mark one day.
I followed my deceiving heart.
Painted a masterpiece
and I thought that I could play the part.
Now look at where it’s all got me.
Just another fruitless tree, weeping willow misery.
I saw myself as so much more.
But now I realize that I’m wretched, naked and poor.
I heard him knocking at the door.
I turned my head to see the beacon I was looking for.
Freedom now was in my sight.
Between the wall and door, a sliver of light.
You opened the door, opened the door, wide open,
and you saved me from myself.
You took the beating I was dishing out.
I had your beard in my hand and you refused to shout.
You took my crown and put it on your head.
And you still loved me when I left you for dead.
I swung the hammer. I drove the nail.
With all my efforts I fail and I fail and I fail.
Now that you set me free, you’ll be the death of me.
Lyrics by Kurt Daniels
"But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him. For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life. Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation." (Rom 5:8-11 WEB)
