faith unfaded

If I had to choose one song as my current campaign anthem, TobyMac’s Lift You Up would be my top choice.

From beginning to end, the lyrics describe my life: my upbringing, my status, my purpose, my drive. It is my fight song — the dance battle with the devil that I know I can’t lose.

That battle has already been won.

But this song gives me just enough fire to want to smoke him in a final throwdown.

Lift You Up (TobyMac, 2015)

🎶 I’ve always been a dreamer, a soul seeker
I knew my life was meant for something deeper
You saw me, there’s beauty all along the way

☝️Always a dreamer. Beautiful dreamer. I used to think I was naive. Now I know I just hadn’t yet learned how to merge dreams with purpose.

🎶 I’ve been walking till my feet hurt, holes in my t-shirt
Caught me at the Goodwill ’cause you know it’s cheaper
Only got a few dollars to my name

☝️Current status by the world’s standards: poor as a church mouse. Status in the Kingdom: royalty.

🎶No I, I, I, I’m never gonna stop believing
Yeah I, I, I, I’mma let ’em know till the day I die
We’ll lift you up
Till this place erupts
We’ll lift you up
‘Cause you ain’t ever gonna let us down

☝️He is worthy to be praised. Plain and simple.

🎶 Yeah it’s been a long road, but I’mma still flow
I keep pouring out my heart for the people
I’ll never let the passion fade away
And you’re the only reason, I’m preaching freedom
We’ll be turning every eye to the kingdom
There ain’t no way that’ll ever change

☝️It was a long road, embarrassingly long and I’ll forever have a tinge of regret for all the life I lost. But my wishy-washy days are over. I’m all in. My purpose can be found in my passion, and sharing the gospel is the only thing that truly matters anymore.

📢📢📢 And then comes the bridge that makes me step to the critics, the condemners, and the devil himself while declaring my allegiance to Christ.

🎶 How many times they need to hear me say it?
I’m a freak for you, I’m here to make you famous
Here to tear it apart, here to light up the dark
I’m debt-free like a bird ’cause you paid the cost
So every time I get a mic in the palm of my hand
I’mma tear the place down like it’s my last stand
But for You is my hill worth dying on, man
The only place that I’ve ever belonged

☝️I am the ultimate freebird — and all because Jesus paid the cost. I’ve been to Hell and back — been down for the count more times than I can remember — but my feet are firmly cemented in the ring now. I will blow the lid off every lie the devil ever whispered. I will expose every trick like a traitorous reality producer releasing a behind-the-scenes tell-all.

Because I finally found my way back home.

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