that you loved me in spite of me...

Lord, in all things i can only look to the cross
your Spirit as fire cleansing away the dross

and thus i give you everything much more so than just a part
uprooting things buried deep within as confessions from my heart:

for i am an adulterer a murderer and a thief at heart
jealous and angry and from holiness apart

my best intentions
stand as my worst contentions

even my best confessions
stand as mere pretensions

not knowing the difference from left to right
and consistently choosing the darkness over light

naked and poor, wretched and blind
in myself or this world no hope i could find

but your grace shines bright through the darkest of night
like stars that twinkle in the night sky so bright

and you reached down and saw my helpless estate
and gave me your love and by grace changed my fate

and without rhyme or reason
despite my sin and treason
you came and changed the seasons
of my heart and gave me a reason

to live to love to hope and dream
as you lead me beside the gentle stream

watering the tree once fruitless and dead
now blossoming to life bearing fruit instead

that your love for me stands forever the same
and in the light of this truth i will remain

that you loved me in spite of me
that you loved me in spite of me

and in this truth i am finally set free