When Warrior's Fall

 

 
Tragedy ebbs and flows
Like waves against a fractured heart
Divided by faith and the weight
Broken on the inside
And desperate again
Drowning in what if's praying I won’t give in
When the lie seems to tell so true
And sight is my obstruction to seeing You
Seeking something to soothe
The sorrow that won't let go
As the trial steals my serenade
I'm still cleaving to what I know
Moments like waiting rooms between
Relative realities and something unseen
Learning to believe despite what I feel
Tell me what is fake and what is real
My every thought is fragile
Yet valuable to You in vulnerability
It's all I can do to trust
As I kill the pride of doubt, when believing is humility
Intimately acquainted with this sickness that You bore
When You died to secure the victory
What is it that we're fighting for?
Yet I labor to enter into rest
Amidst this test
Broken legs, still standing and doing my best
Holding onto hope as grace sustains me
Afflicted by this thorn that is my reality
You are the blue sky above the storm
When clouds circle like vultures overhead
You are the light, the promise of tomorrow
An invisible dawn, when distress befalls me
You give me peace instead
At the end of understanding
All I have is trust in knowing You
Taking all things intended to overshadow brighter days
You hold it altogether and revise my faith in Your ways
With eyes for mountaintops despite a valleys point of view
The moment is not the outcome when I place my faith in You
When even death is healing for resurrection’s call
We win despite the weapon, prosper-less, when warriors fall
You are my armory
Establishing identity
Giving way to the inheritance of grace
As children bearing the bloodline
With features of the Father's face
Healer of the heart
I speak out of the abundance of truth
Nothing that I've done can earn it
But faith works by love, and Your love is the proof
Evidence of the unseen
Calling what is not as it is
Eternity starts now
We're worth so much more than this...