Take My World Apart

Gracious Father,

Today I am seeing that sometimes you must take our world apart in order to build it back around you. How foolish are our attempts to find joy on our own. How pointless and vain are our efforts to create our own comforts. This pride, this selfishness, this heart of the cursed human nature is what drove the nails deep into your son's hands. OH Father, may the inhabitants of this earth cry out for your mercy and your grace continually as we realize the depths of our attrocities against you. Tear down these idols of self and our continual disobedience to your commands. Take our world apart oh Holy Father. And once you have rid us of all that is our own, fill us to the brim with the Holy Spirit and the power of your presence. To you be the Glory, to you be the praise, to you be the worship of all those you have created. Let us sing of your steadfast love for us and stand in awe of your HOLY splendor for now and forever more. Amen.

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I am the only one to blame for this
Somehow it all ends up the same
Soaring on the wings of selfish pride
I flew too high and like Icarus I collide
With a world I try so hard to leave behind
To rid myself of all but love
To give and die

To turn away and not become
Another nail to pierce the skin of one who loved
More deeply than the oceans,
More abundant than the tears
Of a world embracing every heartache

Can I be the one to sacrifice?
Or, grip the spear and watch the blood and the water flow

(To love You)
Take my world apart
(To need You)
I am on my knees
(To love You)
Take my world apart
(To need You)
Broken on my knees

All said and done I stand alone
Amongst remains of a life I should not own
It takes all I am to believe
In the mercy that covers me

Did you really have to die for me?
All I am for all you are
'Cause what I need and what I believe are worlds apart

And I pray
(To love You)
Take my world apart
(To need You)
I am on my knees
(To love You)
Take my world apart
(To need You)
Broken on my knees
On my knees(Bridge)

I look beyond the empty cross
Forgetting what my life has cost
And wipe away the crimson stains
And dull the nail that still remains
More and more I need you now,
I owe you more each passing hour
Battle between grace and pride
I gave up not so long ago
So steal my heart and take the pain,
And wash my feet and cleanse my pride
Take the selfish, take the weak,And all the things I cannot hide
Take the beauty, take my tears
My sin-soaked heart - make it yours
Take my world all apart,Take it now, take it now
And serve the ones that I despise
Speak the words I can't deny
Watch the world I used to love
Fall to dust and blow away
I look beyond the empty cross
Forgetting what my life has cost
And wipe away the crimson stains
And dull the nail that still remains
Steal my heart and take the pain
Take the selfish, take the weak
And all the things I cannot hide
Take the beauty, take my tears
Take my world apart
Take my world apart
And I pray, and I pray, and I pray
Take my world apart
Worlds apart

-by Jars of Clay "Worlds Apart"