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I wrote the lyrics to this song with author Jim Hancock as we looked back at some of the lessons he had learned over his years of ministry. The image that was conjured in the coffee shop at Thousand Pines Christian Camp was that of the Israelites trekking through the desert towards the Promised Land. In full time ministry it can be very easy to think that the good stuff you are doing for God is equivalent to going where God wants you to go. It is not necessarily so. There are times in life where even pastors, maybe especially pastors, wake up and step out of their dessert tent only to realize for the first time in years that the rest of Israel is nowhere in sight.
Lost On My Own is a heart level cry and honest confession that we do not want to go anywhere that God is not leading. We don’t want to ask God to bless what we have already decided we will be doing. We simply want to live every day within sight of the Shepherd, shrouded in the dust from our Rabbi’s feet.
“I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” Genesis 28:15
Lost On My Own
Words by Jim Hancock and Aaron Porter
Good deeds bought cheap
Expecting you to work for me
I’m such a fool for thinking
I could play the lead
Bad deeds concealed
Pretending I’m something that I’m not
And I’m alone still fighting
Battles You have fought
If you’re moving Lord
No matter where You go
Don’t leave me here
Where I’m lost on my own
I’m giving up now
My worth’s not found in what I do
And still I run
But now from You to You
If you’re moving Lord
No matter where You go
Don’t leave me here
Where I’m lost on my own
I’ve seen the truth
It made me flinch and then set me free
I’m found in You
When I am lost to me.
If you’re moving Lord
No matter where You go
Don’t leave me here
Where I’m lost on my own
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