Jerusalem, Jerusalem
ballad
I was a child creating kidstuff,
I lied and cheated just enough
to feel the guilt when all alone at home.
I copied homework from friend Sue
and passed it down the row to Lou.
We knew so little of Jerusalem.
When in the end, I turned a teen
I tried the drug and boozing scene.
With just a few bad trips, it all hit home.
I spent a long weekend in jail
I thought I’d died and gone to hell.
No peace in that place, no Jerusalem.
So glad was I when they said to me
let’s go to church as family.
It was belief that brought us to Shalom.
We’d fought like cats and dogs for aye
There had to be a better way.
True contentment began at Jerusalem.
Of course, there is a God above!
I know Him as the God of love.
He made the rules and guides us on to home.
He wrote the law, then paid the price
Son, Jesus came as sacrifice
so we could tunnel through to Jerusalem.
'Twas there I learned to place me last
to put God first; now when they ask,
“How come on Sundays you never stay at home?”
I am one who found that lost chord
no longer scared to serve my Lord -
I’ve found the peace that comes in Jerusalem.
I did not take Christ’s name in vain
I am a Christian with much to gain
and thus I greet you with a hearty Shalom.
I cannot keep Christ to myself
I cannot put Him on the shelf
for He is the Way to blest Jerusalem.
Jerusalem means place of peace;
Jerusalem needs no police.
we’ll see that when God comes to take us home.
Salvation means that we have learned
forgiveness never will be earned.
It's the light we find in Jerusalem.
written January 17, 2013
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