In the Line of Holiness

Bread of the word in mercy broken
Wine of the soul in mercy shed
Words unspeakable have now been spoken
Flame burns above each bended head
Oh, we’ve come back to our starting
Here at Your feet where life begins
Oh, speak to us Your peace before departing
Lighten the way we journey in

 

Pre-Chorus
Oh, gift in every out-stretched hand,
Oh, burning drops, oh, broken hearts
Oh, life shed forth for our demand
How wonderful Thou art

 

Chorus
How wonderful, how wonderful, how wonderful You are
How wonderful You are, How wonderful you truly are
Oh, bring communion to our hearts
How surpassingly wonderful Thou art

 

The sun shone only yesterday to reveal our iniquities
And its penetrating light has revealed our sin
The crushing truth of living laid bare by the body
And the blood brings to life just where we’ve been
Oh, given over to our longings
Subdued by the lies of our flesh
Oh, bring Your cross with all its breaking
Teach us the grace to rest

 

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We bring our lives the world has broken
Home to Your heart whose blood was shed
By whom the words of life were spoken
It’s in His death our sins are dead

 

Oh, bring communion to our hearts
How surpassingly wonderful Thou art
How wonderful You are

How wonderful You are

Here’s to you and all to come,
I drink to them and everyone
The night is destined to be done
And tomorrow comes but once
Yeah, tomorrow comes but once

 

Chorus
Hearts to break, but a heart that’s broken
A life to take, but a life that I’ve chosen
Don’t say I’m damned for these words that I’ve spoken
For what does that all betoken
Oh, I have tried that way before
And I have walked in that way before
And nothing you say can make me come
Tomorrow comes but once

Yeah, tomorrow comes but once

 

I am drinking a maddening wine
Drunk on sin and lost in pride
The cross of Christ I’ve left behind
Tomorrow comes but once
Yeah, tomorrow comes but once

 

Trapped in my hypnotic state
The choice is mine, I chose my fate
My life I choose not to hate
Tomorrow comes but once
Yeah, tomorrow comes but once

 

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Thanks to you for all you gave
But I can never change my ways
And I will always be the same
For tomorrow comes but once
Yeah, tomorrow comes but once

 

One more round before I’m through
Don’t convince me that it’s true
For I am done now with you
And tomorrow comes but once
Yeah, tomorrow comes but once

 

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Won’t you drink this bottle with me
There’s nothing harmful you see
For it will soon be gone
And tomorrow comes but once

Do you ever find yourself awake at night?
You get out of bed, turn on the light
You kneel on the floor and you pray a silent prayer
And the angels above you come down to hear

 

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And you sail into heaven
You soar on the wings of time
You hear the songs of heaven
For your soul can touch the sky
And your heart knows the answer to your prayer

 

When the night grows long and you climb into bed
And you close your eyes, lay down your head
You drift into a dream of a beautiful place
Of wonder, of majesty, of mercy and grace

 

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When the sun comes up to start the day
You go into a room, kneel down to pray
Oh, God please teach me to be quiet and still
And heaven answers “Of course I will”

 

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As the day moves on and you fall into sin
And the world comes at you and you’re tempted to give in
So you find a quiet place to pray another prayer
And a voice speaks to you “My son do not fear”

 

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Do you ever find yourself awake at night?

The single stroke of innocence that every child has
Is lost when he realizes his existence as a man
And through every phase of his life he strives to regain
That which he somehow lost, never feels the same

 

Bridge
Oh, time is a thief that steals our lives away
And we can never learn to live until we learn to say

 

Chorus
Your grace is sufficient, Your forgiveness real
That teaches me that innocence that all children feel
To learn the wisdom only time can bring
Shunning the sorrow of men’s suffering
To learn to live as a child with the maturity of a man

 

Though we may desire to rebel against our fate
When we finally realize it we are years too late
And every sin that we commit against the Lord Most High
We lose one piece of innocence and one day of our lives

 

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Through every phase of my life I’ve struggled to survive
To keep alive this innocence and never let it die
Days turn into weeks and the weeks into years
Innocence has been regained through each crying tear

 

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Jesus loves me this I know
To learn to live as a child, with the maturity of a man

Oh, sister, daughter of this life that I have come to know
It’s so good just standing here with you
I thank you for all your love, your patience, your goodness and trust
For I know you didn’t have to
For we have stumbled down one of the hardest of roads
And we have traveled down where only some dare to go
Embracing all of tomorrow

 

For so long I’ve wanted to see the man that God would call me to be
And now here’s my answer to prayer
A secret, a mystery, this better part of you and me
Is found within this love that we share
And though we have tried to make it on our own
It has never been good for a man to be alone
So together we’ll make a home

 

Chorus 1


And I will give you my life as you will give me yours
In this place in time I promise now I’m yours
Surrendered to a life other than our own
Our fortunes of grace and time
Our joys and loves and hopes

 

I remember what has past, what was real, and what would last
The mercies of God’s given love
The grace of life this time I’ve known, a destiny I called my own
I now choose to share it with you
And hand in hand we walk down the narrow way
Our lives are not our own, not tomorrow or today
It’s time to give our lives away

 

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So God we give You our lives as You gave us Yours
In this moment in time we promise now we’re Yours
We surrender now our lives to no longer be our own
Our fortunes of grace and time
Are now and forever Yours

 

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Here on a mountainside I wait for you
The smell of the pine trees fills the air
Standing among the aspens I gaze at the view
Thank you for leading me here

 

I cling to an imagined tale a desired paradise
The hills all around me sing their songs
I am down on my knees and I finally realize
That I have been away too long

 

Chorus
Oh, I see the difference between Your heart and mine
The memory of Your love in this old forgotten time
To stand in Your presence my all I would give
To be in this place, to live a dream I have never lived

 

Out on the open road I drive across the plains
I have crossed a thousand miles, I have a hundred more to go
I drive to the horizon that will never be the same
Until I finally reach my home

 

I spend the time in silence that refuses to leave
I have passed every station along the highway
I will drive through the night until I see
The dawning of a morning of praise

March of the saints revealing their glory
Sound in the winds revealing the Son
Songs of the centuries and all through the ages
Each one His story that each one had sung
Melodies and rhythms, their chorus and rhymes
Sung to the Savior and giver of life

 

Chorus
Turn around and sing the songs
Hear the praises of time
Come join with them in hymns of old
Given to you and to I
Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
Come tune my heart to see Your face
Smiles of the saints

 

Their stanzas and poems grow louder and clear
Touching my heart with each one I hear
They sing of a cross that each one had carried
Forgotten doctrine, forgotten glory
A call to remember the sermons of old
The days when our preachers lived all that they told

 

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Remember the words we sung as children
Songs of the church we’ve never forgotten
And now when we hear them we cry and we laugh
And when we sing them they take us back
To that place of longing we all can recall
When our hearts were burning and we heard His call

 

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Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me

 

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Washed up, I’m through
All’s been done that could be done
For I’ve run from You
And turned from the one I love
And heaven cries out for me
‘Cause I can’t cry out for myself
And I can’t hear heaven’s plea
All I see is my wretched self

 

Labyrinth of my sin
I am lost in the webs I weave
And walls that box me in
Are spun from my vain conceit
Marching down the road
Never knowing if it is the right one
For I fall beneath my load
And the sky has covered the sun

 

Chorus
Free the chains of life, I want climb into the sky
Free the chains of life, my sin must be crucified
Free the chains of life, I want to learn what it is to die
I want to fall in love again, with the Lord who takes away my sin

 

Passions of the flesh
Have their grip on my soul
And all that is left
Is one last cry for hope
And I run from the shadows of myself
But they always run as fast as me
And I plea for heaven’s help
For it’s only He who can rescue me

My life is but a weaving between my God and me
I may choose the colors, He worketh steadily
So often He weaveth sorrow and I in foolish pride
Forget He sees the upper and I the lower side

 

Chorus
My life is but a weaving between my God and me
I see the seams and tangles, the fair design He sees
Then let me wait in patience and kindness, satisfied
To make the pattern lovely upon the upper side

 

I chose my strands of golden and wail for woven stars
And murmur when the pattern is set in blur and dark
I cannot yet remember whose hands the shuttles guide
And that my stars are shining upon the upper side

 

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I chose my threads of crimson and wait for flowers to bloom
For wrap and beauty to blossom upon the mighty loom
So often I seek them vainly and fret when them denied
Though flowering wreaths and garlands may deck the upper side

 

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Sun shines through my window and I recall our youth
We lived in a house of laughter, of joy and peace
And we have been given the secrets of life
Remember my dear brother what has passed before our eyes

 

Chorus
In the line of holiness
We march with our heads lifted high
Hand in hand with brokenness
We walk as men who’ve been tried
Humbly we turn our backs on sin
And skillfully we fight against the words of men
And kneeling together we wait for Him
Oh, in the line of holiness…of holiness

 

In a world of forever afters, the moldings into men
And those we gave our hearts to, they came and they went
I remember another whom we called our brother
But on the road to Calvary he forgot what it means to surrender

 

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The scars of our childhood, the marks that stir our souls
The battles with one another, but love healed our wounds
The memories we had as children are yours and mine alone
Cherish the gift of innocence before we grow old

 

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It’s the quiet time of evening
The twilight of a long day
It’s the sound of rushing water
Or kind words we choose to say
It’s a peace that passes all understanding
It’s joy that’s made complete
Rejoicing of a life that’s made eternal
Oh, it’s the light, the very light in me

 

Chorus
It is life and it is love
It is all I’ve ever hoped for and everything I want
It is time and it is truth
It is peace made perfect, whose mind is stayed on You
Stayed on You

 

It’s the calm of the morning
Or the touch of a lover’s hand
It’s a song sung at midday
Or the trust of a real good friend
It’s when tears wash away our sorrow
Or the mending of a heart that was torn
It is God who gives us hope for our tomorrow
So we can live and die a little more

 

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