CALLED TO WALK IN THE WAY
Tune: Put Your Hand in the
Hand
Called
to walk in the way of the man who stilled the water;
Called
to walk in the way of the man who calmed the sea:
Called
to live in the Word and be free to live for others;
Called
to walk in the way of the man from Galilee.
Hear
the Word that's the Word that's been said for all God's creatures;
Hear
the Word that's the Word that's been said for you and me;
It's
the Word about life you are called to give to your brother;
It's
the Word that will give him his possibility.
Well,
a voice comes, I hear it saying all too clearly;
"You
are my Son” with you I am well pleased!
Got
a job to be done and life must needs be given.
Can't
promise rewards and your pain will be increased."
Then
the Spirit came and said, "Go into the desert!
There's
a power—old Satan—he's the one you've got to meet."
Forty
days without food out there as a solitary;
Had
to decide old Satan was the one that had to be beat.
Got
the Word, can't hold it, have to say it‑-it is the gospel;
"The
time has come! The kingdom it has arrived!
You
must change your hearts and minds and believe this good news;
It's
the Word from which the future must be derived."
Heal
the sick, chase the demons, say the Word that says "forgiveness;"
Take
away all excuses for a life to be lived as dead.
Help
each man you meet to make a new decision,
To
pick up the past, live the future with all its dread.
There'll
be betrayal and despair and denial—you'll be left all alone;
And
you'll wonder if the God who has called has gone away.
There'll
be taunts and a hill and a cross all prepared for you,
Then
the spear, flowing blood. final words . . . has death won the day'?
Feel
the dankness and the darkness and the quietness of this closed‑up tomb!
Feel
the relief that old death has prepared for you and me!
But
the Lord calls again ‑‑ look! The stone! It has been rolled away!
Time
to walk with the pain through the avenues of history.
Repeat
first verse
Jim Wiegel A day without sunshine is like, you know, night., Unknown
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