Face Slap

It hurts to watch you agonize
to be someone you are not
It hurts to hear excuses
justifying the race you run
It kills to know there is no growth
that comes for you or I
And to feel in this stagnancy
a friendship slowly die
It is a stress to be with them
Where God has directed me
Because in a world of dark and fear
There is no honesty
What happened to the faith we shared
That God would pull us through
It seems it all has slipped away
I don't know what to do
We say that faith will give us life
It will drive us to the next
Provide for us and never fail
'Cause God is at the base
But just because we said that then
Does not mean we live it now
Convenience and deceit has worked its way
and stripped us of our life
I cannot watch this anymore
It is eating me away
How can I help? What can I do?
Those questions won't suffice
Only Christ can heal what's lost
Only He can revive
fingers of death that wrap our hearts
and turn them back to life
There are so many things I want to say
but more I realize
there is nothing here I can do
My thoughts are only a device
To push away the truth I know
The faith God stored in me
That you are His no matter what
No matter where we may be
He's opened doors and called us in
Given more opportunity
Then either of us could ever dream
Or find in any day
Even when we lose our sight
Of what He's given us
Nothing can ever, ever take
what He has spoken for us
You asked me why I always cry
when things are going wrong
I see now that it is because
the underlying cause
There is a growth inside us both
just waiting to release
It will burst forth in life and grace
If we can only lead
But for some time there has been
an unsure spirit of doubt
It crushes every trinket of faith
Christ's salvation brings about
We cannot sit and wait for change
Because before it comes about
Every sparkle we did have then
will be completely shrouded in doubt
I earnestly wait to see again
the faith that grew in you
For you to rise and crush all foes
Christ has given you authority to
I know your strength, the kind God gives
I've relied on it many times
And the grace and love your beauty gives
When you take life in time
God will grant you what you need
And then some if you ask
So rise again and grasp a hold
He will not let you fall
Don't forget all will fail
At one time or the next
But always Him you can trust
This don't ever forget
It is the simple truths that hold us up
And when we remember them whole;
A step in faith uses these
as basic stepping stones
I will always be here fighting hard
while Christ lives in me
to stay by your side and pull you up
the times that may need be
He is our strength, our trust, our life
Without Him we cannot
Overcome a single thing we want
Without we are nothing
From here on out we take our steps
just one at at time
For in the end we will look back
and see the road behind
It will be worn and bloodied and bruised
The path will have fallen
But the stepping stones of faith we used
Will stand strong and solid.
Then we can look ahead and know
the miles soon ahead
Cannot be so terrible
with faith on our side.
I am not sure how to end this
so with no more delay
I say these words over again
As they so often come into play
Faith.
Love.
Life.
Let's not forget where we have come
For in the darkness light will shine
And show us what He's done.