By Your Side

I recently heard this song by 10th Avenue North and I thought the lyrics were really good. So I added the song to the playlist below (if you want to listen to it) and then we played this song at our last Wednesday night Bible study and talked about the lyrics a little.

I think the line "why are you striving these days" is a great way to start off the song. The striving leads to the next line - "why are you trying to earn grace". WOW!! What a line. Grace by definition cannot be earned and yet because we often have little understanding of grace or we are caught up in the way this earthly world works, we often find ourselves trying to earn God's grace. We need instead to rest in all that God has provided for us. We don't earn it; he gives it to us freely!

And then the lines "why are you looking for love" - looking somewhere else besides God. "Why are you searching as if I'm not enough". God is enough. He is all sufficient. And yet we are often trying to fill a void in our lives with something else. We aren't standing on the fact that He is enough.

Anyway just some thoughts here. I really like this song. Listen to it and read the lyrics and I think you will like it too!

By Your Side

Artist: Tenth Avenue North

Album: Over and Underneath

Why are you striving these days?

Why are you trying to earn grace?

Why are you crying,

Let me lift up your face,

Just don't turn away.

Why are you looking for love?
Why are you still searching, as if I'm not enough?
To where will you go child,
Tell me where will you run
To where will you run?

And I'll be by your side

Wherever you fall

In the dead of night

Whenever you call

And please don't fight

These hands that are holding you.

My hands are holding you.

Look at these hands and my side,

They swallowed the grave on that night,

When I drank the world's sin

So I could carry you in

And give you life.

I want to give you life.

And I'll be by your side

Wherever you fall

In the dead of night

Whenever you call

And please don't fight

These hands that are holding you.

My hands are holding you.

Cause I, I love you.

I want you to know

That I, I love you

I'll never let you go.

And I'll be by your side

Wherever you fall

In the dead of night

Whenever you call

And please don't fight

These hands that are holding you.

My hands are holding you.

My hands are holding you.