God's Economy Made Simple

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in a boat you just keep rowin'</div> <div> How I want reality.</div> <bR> <div> So, I'm runnin' after nothin' eating turkey without stuffin'</div> <div> I'm just not satisfied.</div> <div> Lot's of words, but no poem; nothin' real that I can show 'em</div> <div> How I want reality!</div> <bR> <div> <B>Picture me, a mystery:  the salt, the light of God.</B></div> <div> <B>He'd be shinin' forth for other men to see</B></div> <div> <B>Much more of Christ and less of me.</B></div> <bR> <div> Just to feel the Lord's emotion His jealousy, devotion</div> <div> And really feel His heart.</div> <div> I would stay young and vital, no position or a title,</div> <div> If I had reality.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> I have wasted many hours; bore no fruit and grew no flowers</div> <div> And it never seems to rain.</div> <div> I work hard, I'm so busy; got a fever, I'm so dizzy.</div> <div> How can Christ be formed in me?</div> <bR> <div> I know doctrine, I know teaching; I've even done some preaching</div> <div> But something's missing still.</div> <div> What I know isn't workin'; my commitment I am shirkin'.</div> <div> How can Christ be formed in me?</div> <bR> <div> <B>How I need to hear the Lord by spending time with him.</B></div> <div> <B>I repent, confess, and open to His word</B></div> <div> <B>And He creates His faith in me. </B></div> <bR> <div> No more wood, nor hay, nor stubble; my natural man's in trouble.</div> <div> I'm waiting on the Lord.</div> <div> With my heart I am turnin'; and my spirit now is burnin'</div> <div> As the Lord is formed in me.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> There are times I am courageous; my zeal is quite contagious; </div> <div> I seek to win the world.</div> <div> But when the world gave me a lickin'; I found out, I'm really chickin'.</div> <div> How can Christ live out through me?</div> <bR> <div> I would stand up in the meeting and give the saints a beating.</div> <div> I thought I knew it all!</div> <div> Then God's Word started shinin'; and my flesh began its' whinin'.</div> <div> How can Christ live out through me?</div> <bR> <div> <B>Not rebelling or in pride, a spirit, meek and low.</B></div> <div> <B>I could boast but not to make a fleshly show.</B></div> <div> <B>No longer I, but Christ in me.</B></div> <bR> <div> How I want to walk in spirit; face trouble and not fear it;</div> <div> And speak what I have seen.</div> <div> No more empty, slogan shouting; when defeated, no more pouting.</div> <div>             Only Christ lived out through me!</div> <bR> <div>  <embed src="HTMLobj-377/if_i_only_had_a_brain.mid" autostart="true" loop="true" width="145" height="70">  </div> <bR> <div> Return to:  </div> <div> <A HREF="id84.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Childrens Songs"><U>Children's Songs</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hymns "><U>Hymns </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id96.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Choruses "><U>Choruses </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id87.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Spiritual Songs"><U>Spiritual Songs</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id579.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contemporary Christian Songs"><U><B>Contemporary Christian Songs</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id89.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Howard Higashi "><U><B>Howard Higashi </B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id93.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Craig Riesen"><U><B>Craig Riesen</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id449.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Popular Melodies with Spiritual Words"><U><B>Popular Melodies with Spiritual Words</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>