You hold strength in the palm of your hands
This you revealed when you found us wandering the lands
You called to us and sang us songs that called to mind
The days we long for sitting in your house
You shouted to us from the bows of the veranda
On several rounds we made walking past you
Don’t continue to pass your house come home
When you saw our tired feet fainting under our weight
You were the one who came to carry us the rest of the way
With loving embraces and kisses
You gave salt to the salt-less
Meaning, where everything was a jumbled mess
What we could not ask you provided no less
Food for our hunger
Wine for our parched throats also
Assurance that you would not leave us alone
Celebrated our healing with reckless abandon
God, my God, how your love has taught our vagabond hearts
That death no longer matters and sin no longer rules us
And here we are being offered a Kingdom and everything we could not earn
While even of the lessons of greater value we learn
You have demanded nothing but for us to believe
You show the plans you have set before us to delight us
As if we had been loving and obedient children
With so much love you counsel your unworthy servants
What we do not know, your wisdom counsels
Encouragement to live in Yeshua Messiah, the light of the world
How the Anointed smiles ear to ear seeing his little ones come near
Even oh even, while we yet walked in trembling and fear
Everything made us wilt, eyes wide and set to run
And yet we only hear from you, no my child, come
With your own blood, you clothe us in new clothes
Our hearts, oh thoughts dipped in joy no longer thudding woes
We still do not believe we saw you run to meet us
Because we know we are guilty of saying we hadn’t seen enough
But your faithful word preserved us and locked our mouths
Your Spirit kept us through sin and temptation that should have doomed us
But you have proven your might by deed
And gave dry bones the life it should lead
Who has ever heard of clay gaining salt
But we are your witnesses who have all crawled
In the murky places you pulled up your sleeve to rescue
And look now Lord, look, your wandering children can praise you
Oh, oh heart full of thanksgiving
Confidence in knowing
Full of Spiritual vision
Praising our God for Jesus Christ risen
You have given us love to give to all of our brothers and sisters
A new life in Jesus and testimony to all others
Our haunts and demons are shaken far and wide
Because the temple is rebuilt and renewed full of light
A beacon to the lost
Testifying that The Holy and Anointed paid the full cost
So we can now with your saints raise our voices
And sing the dirge you prepared for your loved ones from the highest heights
The song you have prepared is sweet incense
Joy of the heart that brings promised effervescence
We sing like the captives by the rivers of Babylon
We also sat down and wept when we remembered our captivity and wandering
But, God, we sing most about the grace that saved us
These are the things we see looking out the window of our finished houses
We are no longer captive to sin and temptation
And our mouths are now full of your glorious invitation
For all to join the life of your Son
Come home, come home we sing to all we see passing
You too, are the Father’s beloved, dear children