I Am a Christian

I often shrink back and lose my faith, God’s love with abandon I crave and chase, I have moved mountains with just a glimmer of hope, I have enslaved nations and to children sold dope, I am the salt of the earth and a scourge of mankind, I strive with all that I am to dwell in Christ’s mind, I am caught up in fear and many of its lies, I intercede against the enemy so that all might rise, I reflect Christ perfectly and defame his name, I have the courage of David and bare Judas’ shame, I have betrayed and been loyal, I am Battered and bruised, triumphant and royal, I have victimized others and acted in malice, With many afflicted I have shared his love’s chalice, I am divine and depraved, I am soiled and saved, I am a Christian, caught up in hypocrisy’s web, And many to the light of love I have led, I am a Christian and when my fullness is revealed, You will see the lame walk, and the afflicted healed, I am a Christian and though I don’t look it now, One day you will see me and your heart will scream loud, That you have seen God incarnate in all of her glory, That you have seen a solution to this life’s worry, That you have seen the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost too, I am a Christian, I love Jesus, and so can you, And together we will fall and together rise high, To embrace our blessed savior in the cosmic sky.