Christian Jung and Phil Jung
(c) 2001
VERSE 1
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I want to tell You just how I feel, just how I feel inside
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My heart is filled with gratitude, with a joy I cannot hide
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Every time that I think of You my problems fade away
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And as Your love envelopes me I know everything will be okay
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I know everything will be okay
CHORUS
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I'm crying out to You and calling out Your name
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Jesus since I met You I've never been the same
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My heart is laid wide open, I fall on bended knee
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I'm offering to You the sacrifice of me
VERSE 2
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I want to go to that quiet place where You and I can meet
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I'll give You all of my burdens and lay them at Your feet
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I long to see You face to face, surrounded by Your light
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And as Your presence changes me I know everything will be alright
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I know everything will be alright
CHORUS
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KEY CHANGE/GUITAR SOLO
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CHORUS
COMMENTARY:
Starting writing the chorus of this song while installing hardwood floors in California. The part of the song that really hit me was the fact that we can offer our lives to God as a sacrifice. The Old Testament is full of imagery that paints the animal and blood sacrifices as central to the worship of Yahweh. This, of course, was fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ, as He was the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. But we, as Christ-followers, can also offer ourselves as living sacrifices to God (Romans 12:2). I have heard it said that the problem with living sacrifices is that they keep crawling off the altar. In my life, I desire to lay my entire life on God's altar, and reckon my sinful nature as dead, and that the aroma that arises from this self-sacrifice would be pleasing to Yahweh.
