When If
The instant that we start to think we have all things in hand
Is the instant we should realize we do not understand
The frailty of humanity and all that we might be
That only has its surety in God's divinity
For as the scripture tells us in the body of His Word
Through story after story as the Spirit can be heard
We cannot by our thoughts adjust the color of our skin
Nor by our thoughts amend our height to be like other men
Nor can we change the course of time to give us back our years
To change the course of where we've been in spite of all the tears
Or root out all the evil thoughts that tend to plague our souls
Or wipe away the emptiness that fills our lives with holes
Those holes that only Christ can fill when if He does abide
When if we set all self aside to let Him live inside
When if He holds the key that fits the lock to where we've been
That opens up our darkened past and wipes away our sin
The sin that's held us back from being all that we could be
If by God's grace through living faith with our entirety
We choose to be abandoned to the purpose of His will
His will that has the power of life to make and mold us still
To what He may desire of us through all that He has planned
To finish all the work begun that we don't understand
But that we are designed to play a part in by His love
That raises us from where we are to awesome realms above
Through special time together with our Lord upon our knees
Full focused on His mighty Word where everything He sees
Is opened to our vision as He knows will serve us best
To give us preparation as we near that final test
That test of our allegiance when if we give all to Him
To stand as faithful soldiers of the cross before all them
Who compromised the precious gift of life God's given us
To do the one and only thing He's given us in trust
To lay our will before Him to be all that we might be
By His indwelling presence that transforms both you and me
When if we take the time to see the beauty of His plan
His plan of restoration One with God and One with man
Matthew 6:19-34; Jeremiah 13:23; Hebrews 2:6-14