IT BEGINS WITH ME
By Effie Darlene Barba
With all the pain across this land
What can I do to take a stand?
For hope, for joy and virtue too
Oh Lord, to take my stand for You!
There is no hope for truth to reign
While men do use Your name in vain
Their selfish lies Your gospel feign
Our streets now filled with bloody stain
My Lord, I come with heavy heart
To ask You Lord, “What is my part?”
“What can I do? Where do I start?”
I have no strength lest You impart!
For if I speak, they will not hear
Angry, embittered, deafened ear
With hearts of rage and hearts of fear
Until truth and love all disappear
Such bitter rain of dark dismay
“What can I do? What can I say?”
Except on bended knee to pray
To plead You come to heal today
You are the ONLY Hope I know
Where virtue, truth doth overflow
I plead for them, that You might show
Your mercy, Lord to men so low
And let Your victory on the cross
Cover our shame, our bitter loss
Open our ears to hear Your voice
Let peace and love now be our choice
Turn evil hearts that they might see
Their only hope of victory
Is to bow on bended knee
Pleading for Grace, humility
I cannot see my brother’s pain
While anger, fear within me reign
So, first I come before You now
Clean my heart, Your truth avow
It all must now BEGIN with Me
So, open now my heart to see
My selfish heart, my guilty stains
Let truth and mercy fill my veins
That I might boldly go proclaim
That if each one would call Your Name
And lay aside their selfish pride
Your peace and love could then abide
Our freedom, liberty renew
Our torch of hope for all to view
And so Dear Lord, I clearly see
Revival now, begins with me.
ephesians 4:1-3
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
IT BEGINS WITH ME
It begins with me surrendering my heart fully to God. Only then can I begin to display a heart of unconditional love, give with unselfish desire, and listen to every broken, bleeding heart. Not in an attempt to tell them what they might believe; but, rather to display so much of God’s light, love, and Joy that others are drawn to Him.
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©Effie Darlene Barba, 2017
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