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jx.zero - pick up your cross كلمات أغنية

[spoken verse]
you know i’ve spent years chasing god
not casually, desperately
searching for his presence, longing to understand what it means to be after his heart
and somewhere along that path i told myself, “god sees the heart of man, so if i clean mine and i try hard enough, strive hard enough, i can be what he’s looking for”
but i was wrong, i wasn’t chasing god
i was trying to fix myself
trying to earn righteousness through effort, through fear, through shame
through a quiet gnawing lack of love for who i am
and the truth is, you can’t run from sin when you don’t understand the one who defeated it
for by grace are you saved through faith
and that not of yourselves it is the gift of god
not of works thus any man should boast, ephesians 2:8, do not
it’s one thing to read our righteousness is filthy rags
it’s another to feel it
to see your best efforts crumble like dust before holy and eternal king
i know what it’s like to fall
i know what it’s like to repent and to fall again and again and again
for a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again
in the fall i’ve been humbled and i will continue to be humbled
because i wasn’t trying to outrun sin, i was trying to outrun me
this flesh, this nature, my trauma, my wounds, my hurt
this false belief that i could earn what only yahawashah could offer
and that’s why today, the only reason i lift my head is christ
because it is not in my own strength to watch myself fall and fall and fall
and know how much of a wicked man i am in this body
and to act as if righteousness lives in me, when it doesn’t
it lives in the spirit of god that lives within me, not in this fleshly body
the only thing i can boast in is him
but god forbid that i should glory save in the cross of our lord jesus christ
i’ve been made righteous not by my discipline, not by my zeal, not by my bloodline
but by his blood that covers me, by yahweh’s mercy
you know, god called david a man after his own heart
read that slowly at the beginning
david was just a man, a flawed, broken vessel who repented deeply and loved greatly
behold, i was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me, psalms 51 vs. 5
that is me, and that is you
i can’t impress god, i can’t woo him over
i can’t buy his affection with works for i was born into sin
i am simply what i am, his creation
he chose to love me, not because of what i do, not because of who i am
but simply because he chose to love me on his own will and accord
and i could never dare call myself a man after god’s own heart
that’s a title only he can give
but what i can say is this, i love you, lord, so very much
i can’t make promises i might break, i don’t know what tomorrow brings
but you, you know the days appointed for me
you know my battles, my weaknesses, my demons, and still you stay with me
and not only do you stay with me, lord, you call, you command me to live a life
not according to the standards of men or to the standards of my weaknesses, lord
but to the standards of your righteousness
and you have given me eternal life through your son
who has atoned for my sins and has let me know
get up, my son, and sin no more, you are forgiven
so today, i thank you, thank you, lord, thank you for christ
for giving him to atone for what i never could
for enduring this filthy flesh with patience, for not throwing me away
and with all i am, i pray one day i might hear, “well done, my good and faithful servant”
i am just a man, a man who believes he’s chasing the god who reigns above all
so if you’re listening, endure, we fall, but we don’t fall away
live rejoice be grateful every breath you take is his mercy
let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter
fear god and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man
there are so many things we don’t understand, many things we never will
but his love that’s eternal and with this limited body, this mind thirsting for wisdom it can’t contain
i know this
yeah, i wish i who the world knows him as jesus christ is the way, the truth, the life
he is the door the key the bridge the beginning and the end
i breathe today because he stopped breathing for me
this project, this confession, it’s not perfection, it’s not the sermon
it’s the sound of a broken man leaning entirely on a perfect god
and i have given you pieces of my heart that deceitful thing that no man can understand
and if you want to be after god’s own heart don’t try to earn it follow where his love led
for god so loved the world that he gave his only_begotten son
to be after his heart is to follow, to pursue, to obey, to love what he loves
and to walk where his son walked
because in the end our lineage won’t save us, our works won’t save us
even our belief alone in the most high won’t save us
if we forsake the very one who makes belief possible
no man can come unto the father but by me
so pick up your cross, pick it up with trembling and walk after god’s own heart

- jx zero

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