Hallowed Tribe - A Song

Dedicated to the Karen of Burma

A response to the students of KBTS
Hallowed Tribe

(1)
Light came soon
penetrated the darkness of our land
We were the forgotten ones
Afraid of life (voice 2), did time stand still...
like Judson, our judge, we saw our Messiah

Purchased too
The flood of living water--covers our land
We're not the forgotten ones
Added to the family (voice 2), we begin again
No hurt, no pain, can separate from our Savior.

Chorus: Praise God our strength, our defender,
our King. In His ways, we have the strength
to sing. And sing. We sing

Glory
Glory to King
Glory
Glory to King

What can stop us now? Not death, not danger, not fear,
not trouble, not might, not famine,
--He delivers.
--Our Lord--He is more--our reward.

(2)
Thank God for the blood
running through our land
to wipe away death in the end

Thank God for the enemy's knives at our throats
We bleed Hope, so others hear and know
He lives
Oh with every sigh, we see the Kingdom.

What can stop us now? Not death, not danger, not fear,
not trouble, not might, not famine,
--He delivers.
--Our Lord--He is more--our reward.

For we are standing on the rock
And His strength and light in us shines strong
God gives us the strength to war
And tells the story of His Love through us.

Chorus: Praise God our strength, our defender,
our King. In His ways, we will have the strength
to sing. And sing. We sing...

Glory
Glory to King
Glory
Glory to King

What can stop us now? Not death, not danger, not fear,
not trouble, not might, not famine,
--He delivers.
--Our Lord--He is more--our reward.

the Laver

It was in your face in mine
when I kissed Grace for the very first time
the cause for which we dance
the searching, stretching, daily romance

We looked into the laver
endearing traits that fade over time
the time, it passed in spaces that we couldn't understand
and where we went,
well, it wasn't in the plan
but we return, and see Him again

We suppose the maidens are craving their mirrors be returned
so that they can stare into their own eyes again
but I imagine their near repenting of that sin
And when we return to the temple,
we return again as priests.

We minister to the King and He has called us kings.
We minister to the sheep, and they are ever wandering...
like us.

So today we thought to ask,
what we never thought to ask before,
for fear that they answer would bring our grace obsolete,
when we travel far from Thee,
do you wander also and others seek?
Or does your love stand as a solid flame?

Staring still into the laver,
until we see Your eyes,
we are reminded-the planets, the stars,
and all the waters of the oceans,
are not as precious as our soul,
there size does not make them greater,
just like our experience does not make us greater
but faith.

For the eyes of the LORD move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His. You have acted foolishly in this. Indeed, from now on you will surely have wars. 2 Chronicles 16:9

So Crazy to Believe

--

I will speak of this departure from faith in me to faith in Him.
I will speak of this path of trusting love of the Unseen.
Let me speak a while...

At first fear will seize you.
And then reason and reasoning.
And then, if you'll read of those that went before-confusion.
Are you listening?

Then you will have to do the most annoying thing.
You'll have to wait until He speaks.
And though it take years, it won't be long.
And you will understand eternal reasons for ending wrongs.

Maybe you'll be kind to your neighbor - the stranger, the friend.
Maybe you'll love in a ways you'd never imagine.
But I promise you this, the more you hear from Him,
the more you see Him, the more you understand,
Faith is always in here, the more you can...

And even when...

her countenance has fallen
she's angry to dwell on this earth away from love
she bargained with God for a measure of goodness
if You give this for that, she said, my life is yours...

hmhmhmph to the One that owns everything.

IT DIDN'T WORK LIKE SHE PLANNED!

now she sees sadness everywhere she looks,
like a child,
yes, like a child,
she thought, "I'll just wrench my life back then."
In His hands--the fighting and the wrenching,
the burning and disappointment.

What was in her eyes when she looked at me...
the fear of the fallen, that the world was not mended,
that everything is still not right and may never very well be
in her time.

In her time she just wanted to stretch out to the sky in defiance.
i can fly
earth you fade
i continue
i can fly

And with a mind pregnant with such ambitions
she waited for them to become

...what's my place?
I saw in her eyes my saddness.

"Let God be God."

---

You were not made to be a giant,
but to go forth with meekness and giant deeds on this earth.

You were not made to endure as long as the sun,
but as long as the Son is with you.

Be sure His Spirit be with you when you make your fantastic plans.
...cause sometimes these beautiful and grand deeds that we think
we are supposed to do for Him,
they don't come close to completion
no not to beginning.

Do not strive He said.
Be still and know that I am God.

Let's build Him another house while we wait.
The One above the heavens.
Let's build Him another house,
that the poor and the needy
cannot enter.

Where your brothers are the wolves.
Ravenous, not for your flesh but for dreams...
dare not dream while they sit,
dare not move in their sight,
no do not ask for prayer or a blessing,
they will counsel you that the dream is born
of a foolish heart.

And even when you swear you heard God Himself speak.
They will say be silent.

And even when you're building a bridge there with prayer and tears.
They will say be quiet.

So even when all seems untouched and unmoved by the Mighty One.
And you have put all that you could and should into this dream.
Remember...faith sees without seeing.