Lent 22 ~ I Am a Child of God

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I heard this beautiful song, No Longer Slaves, for the first time last night. Curious to know more, I went a-digging and discovered that I most liked the version superbly sung by an African singer on America’s Got Talent. Gently and unpretentiously, sung from the heart, it caught my own heart and wouldn’t let go. I don’t know if I could ever make the words of the song mine.

But it felt like someone wanted me to listen and to walk the road to belief. To tuck the words of the song into my heart, for when fear threatens to conquer. When the mountains before me rise intimidatingly. When the Jordans before me stretch out too wide to cross.

Someday, may that day come, when I will no longer be a slave to fear, but secure in knowing that I have been ransomed.

By a Love so great it is beyond words.

… You unravel meWith a melodyYou surround me with a songOf deliveranceFrom my enemies‘Til all my fears are gone

… I’m no longer a slave to fearI am a child of GodI’m no longer a slave to fearI am a child of God

… From my mother’s wombYou have chosen meLove has called my nameI’ve been born againInto Your familyYour blood flows through my veins

… I’m no longer a slave to fearI am a child of GodI’m no longer a slave to fear

… I am a child of God

… I’m no longer a slave to fearI am a child of GodI’m no longer a slave to fearI am a child of God

… I am surrounded

… By the arms of the Father

… I am surroundedBy songs of deliverance

… We’ve been be liberated

… From our bondage

… We’re the sons and the daughters

… Let us sing our freedom

… Ooh, ooohOoh, oooh

… You split the seaSo I could walk right through itMy fears are drowned in perfect loveYou rescued meSo I could stand and sayI am a child of God

… You split the seaSo I could walk right through itMy fears are drowned in perfect loveYou rescued meSo I could stand and sayI am a child of GodI am a child of GodYes, I am a child of God

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