Take Heart - Emu Music

Do you identify as any of these words: broken. hurting. waiting. Take heart. The King of all kings is with you, is in you, is walking beside you. And he is coming.

Broken one, take heart

For your King has entered in

Made your heart His home

When He washed away your sin

In the darkest day, know your shame is all gone

When He looks at you, God will see His Son

At the throne of grace, He says "sinner, come"

When you feel lost in shame, overwhelmed by grief, stuck in the rut. Know that He sees you - and in you He sees His son. Grief and pain are not foreign to Him - be drawn to this truth. He knows you, He loves you. 

Wait on Him. He can put even your most broken places back together again.

Do not fear the world, He has overcome

You are safe in Him covered by His love

Broken one, take heart

For your King has entered in

Made your heart His home

When He washed away your sin

In the darkest day, know your shame is all gone

When He looks at you, God will see His Son

At the throne of grace, He says "sinner, come"

Hurting one, take heart

For your King will walk beside

With each rising sun

Every grace He will provide

In the hardest day, He will never forsake

For He knows your grief and He feels your pain

When the world gives way, Jesus will remain

Waiting one, take heart

For your King will soon return

Ending every strife

He will reign upon the earth

In the longest day, know the vict'ry is won

Do not fear the world, He has overcome

You are safe in Him covered by His love

Do not fear the world, He has overcome

You are safe in Him covered by His love

Source: Musixmatch

Into the Sea (It's Gonna Be OK) - Tasha Layton

What questions keep you up at night? When you find yourself doubting, where do those doubts come from? What do you internalize and find yourself stuck on, what lies get under your skin, what breaks you?

Strangely, one of the fastest ways to break me is to tell my your story of pain. Hearing other people share from their broken places is one of the greatest gifts; others stories of pain, of shame, or of how they have been hurt by their own actions or things someone has said to them is the fastest way to bring me to tears. It's also the fastest way to leave me up at night. When people who I love have been hurt in a way that seems unimaginable I find myself questioning if God is still good. (why my own pain doesn't trigger this is probably a blog for another day)

Can you make something

From the wreckage?

Would you take this heart

And make it whole again?

I don't know how many times you have found yourself wondering if there is any way to salvage a broken mess. Whether that is a kitchen experiment (ask me about making gnocchi... what a disaster) that went wrong, a sewing adventure that ended up 3 sizes too small, or a life that feels left in pieces, like Humpty Dumpty who has fallen from the wall - what do you do with those questions? Where do you turn?

Though the mountains may be moved into the sea

Though the ground beneath might crumble and give way

I can hear my Father singing over me

"It's gonna be okay, it's gonna be okay"

In the quiet do you hear the words being sung over you? It's going to be ok. Friends, it's going to be ok.

Where do you need to be reminded of this truth? Where do you need to hear that God is close? Maybe you're in that low place for just this moment. Can you hear his voice? He is close...

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed. - Psalm 34:18

My heart is breaking

In a way I never thought it could

My mind is racing

With the question, "Are you still good?"

Can you make something

From the wreckage?

Would you take this heart

And make it whole again?

Though the mountains may be moved into the sea

Though the ground beneath might crumble and give way

I can hear my Father singing over me

"It's gonna be okay, it's gonna be okay"

I've blamed myself

And if I'm honest, maybe I've blamed you too

But You would not forsake me

'Cause only good things come from You

Though the mountains may be moved into the sea

Though the ground beneath might crumble and give way

I can hear my Father singing over me

"It's gonna be okay, it's gonna be okay"

From beginning to the end

You're so close

You have never let me down

And you won't

In the valley, in the shadow, I know

You're so close

You're so close

Though the mountains may be moved into the sea

Though the ground beneath might crumble and give way

I can hear my Father singing over me

"It's gonna be okay"

"It's gonna be okay"

"It's gonna be okay"

"It's gonna be okay"

I'm gonna be okay

I'm gonna be okay

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Keith Smith / Bryan Fowler / Micah Kuiper

Into the Sea (It's Gonna Be Ok) lyrics © So Essential Tunes