This is another Blaze Community protest song.
The throne of God to claim
Not content with Glory's light
Was cast to Earth in shame
He who in Eden's garden walked
In innocence and peace
Chose to be as God Himself
Won sin and death and disease
They who together in their pride
Built a tower to Heaven
The tower fell, the people scattered
And throughout the earth were driven
The King of Babylon surveyed
His domain, the gift of God
Boasted in his arrogance
So madness came upon him
Those that scorn the gift of Grace
Their own law they command
Imaginations of fleshly men
To what will they be condemned?
The psalmist proclaims 'Trust not in man,
For even the great will fail you.
Put your faith in God alone,
For only He can save you.'
We have one King, Judge and Lord
His is our culture, him we obey.
No other can demand our loyalty
No other can share His throne.
Dare we trust ourselves
With our brother's soul?
When we know we, full of sin
Can fall as easily as he?
The Spirit, our Teacher, Discipler, Guide
The One who truly knows our heart.
He is our Healer, our Unity, our Power.
What man thinks himself better?
Dare we judge where God has not judged?
Or say No when God says Yes?
Dare we obstruct the will of God
When it is against OUR ways?
Or do we in self-righteous pride
Think ourselves God's equal?
Is this the life for which Christ died?
The tyranny of the enemy?
Do we shut the world outside
But keep the flesh within?
Do temper, jealousy and greed abide
Where a spoonful of sugar is sin?
Better a vegetarian meal where love is
Than the fattened calf with hatred.
Better to live in Christ's Grace
Than under the yoke of the Pharisee.
Hate the world, we are told,
But what is it we should hate?
The spiritual man may do all things
He needs only the Spirit to guide.
Hate the world, we are told.
But what is it we should hate?
Rules and traditions of worldly men
That bring judgement and division.
