Relentless Grace

This is the text to a song I began writing as I was dealing with sexual sin in my own heart, and at that time I called it "Steal Me Away."  I left it unfinished for a few months, and during that time the Lord began showing me how to love and pray for the homosexual community that He had put in my life.  My heart was broken for my friends who lived a homosexual lifestyle--I found myself crushed and grieving over their pain and hunger for love and acceptance.  I started to understand that homosexuality is always born out of pain.  Soon I began to see how God was pursuing them, and I saw His authority to set them free from sin and satisfy their hearts.  I also began to find myself implicated in the same sin.  Even though my impure thoughts were heterosexual, they still represented a broken, disfigured perversion of God's perfect model for sex, and they still put Christ on the cross.  I have the same need for Christ's complete dominion over my flesh, the same hunger for the satisfaction that can only be found in surrender to His glory.  I finished the song and changed the name to "Relentless Grace," because now I understand that Christ's death and resurrection is sufficient to overcome all sin, and the love that drove Him to the cross still drives Him to chase down rebel hearts.  In summary, this song is the cry of my own heart, and I see it representing the cry of repentance from any type of sexual immorality.

Verse 1
I don't understand the things I do, things I think and say
Every good desire crippled by a thirst for all I hate
Echoes of the fall living on in the fall of me
Is there any hope of rescue from this body of death?

Chorus
Lord I need You!  I have nothing without You
And I'm desperate; won't You hide me in Your grace?
Steal me away from me

Verse 2
I'm giving up the chase, I'm laying down the gods that tear and kill
I turn to find Your grace has followed me and will embrace me still
No distance is too great, Shepherd of this lost and lonely soul
You find me where I am and take me where I have no right to go

Chorus

Lord I need You!  I have nothing without You

And I'm desperate; won't You hide me in Your grace

Your grace!

Bridge

All authority 

I give to the One who claimed my life for His glory

Take me now, this reluctant, relinquished life

Make me Yours

Make me Yours

Make me Yours

Carry me along to glory...

...When I'll see You, when the battle is over

And all is free to praise

Your relentless grace.