A Heart Like Mine

By Bryan Duncan

Of all the hearts in the world

I've only one to give

So insecure, a desperate pulse

Racing to Your embrace

That You could want me and seek me

Is more than words could ever say

That You would love me and see in me

A pearl of price, thrown away

A heart like mine

How could it be worthy that You'd find

A way to redeem this hardened clay

Twisted and broken

Oh Father God above

The wonder that You'd love a heart like mine

Your holy hands hold me still

Shaping my heart anew

Once vacant shell now reclaimed

Offers its praise to You

The one who searched till You found me

A wounded lamb whose gone astray

You stopped the world to recover me

Oh Lamb of God, the price You've paid

I make my promise to

Do the one thing I can do with abandon

I can give every heartbeat to You

Martyrs and Thieves

There's a place in the darkness that I used to cling to
It presses harsh hope against time
In the absence of martyrs there's a presence of thieves
Who only want to rob you blind
They steal away any sense of peace
Though I'm a king I'm a king on my knees
And I know they are wrong when they say I am strong
As the darkness covers me

So turn on the light and reveal all the glory
I am not afraid
To bare all my weakness knowing in meekness
I have a kingdom to gain
Where there is peace and love in the light, in the light
Oh I am not afraid
To let Your light shine bright in my life, in my life
Oh I... am, I...

There are ghosts from my past who've owned more of my soul
Than I thought I had given away
They linger in closets and under my bed
And in pictures less proudly displayed
A great fool in my life I have been
Have squandered till pallid and thin
Hung my head in shame and refused to take blame
For the darkness I know I've let win

Can you hear me?

Well I've never been much for the baring of soul
In the presence of any man
I'd rather keep to myself all safe and secure
In the arms of a sinner I am
Could it be that my worth should depend
By the crimson stained grace on a hand
And like a lamp on a hill Lord I pray in Your will
To reveal all of You that I can