Lyrics to "By your Side"

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...

Cause I, I love you

I want you to know

That I, I love you.

I'll never let you go..."

The Lord has obviously laid these lyrics on my heart today, because I heard this song 3 times on the drive back to Spartanburg, and didn't know the artist, so I made a mental note to look it up when I got home. And, then, I sign online and see where a fellow believer has blogged about the Lord giving her this very song today. And, I sat there, amazed by God's grace and love. He knows what I am struggling with lately; he knows my fears, inhibitions, weaknesses. He knows it all, and yet, he stays by my side through all my sin, struggles and the times that I don't follow him. He's there, all day, every day, to wipe away my tears, to rejoice in the good times, to comfort me during sad times. He's there...I'm just bypassing him by. Ashamed to admit it, but I am. All the while, he's waiting right there, patiently waiting for me to return to his arms. What a wonderful Lord I serve!