confessions

Wedding Dress - Derek Webb

If you could love me as a wife
and for my wedding gift, your life
Should that be all I'd ever need
or is there more I'm looking for

and should I read between the lines
and look for blessings in disguise
To make me handsome, rich, and wise
Is that really what you want

I am a whore I do confess
But I put you on just like a wedding dress
and I run down the aisle
I run down the aisle
I'm a prodigal with no way home
but I put you on just like a ring of gold
and I run down the aisle to you

So could you love this bastard child
Though I don't trust you to provide
With one hand in a pot of gold
and with the other in your side

I am so easily satisfied
by the call of lovers so less wild
That I would take a little cash
Over your very flesh and blood

I am a whore I do confess
But I put you on just like a wedding dress
and I run down the aisle
I run down the aisle
I'm a prodigal with no way home
but I put you on just like a ring of gold
and I run down the aisle to you

Because money cannot buy
a husband's jealous eye
When you have knowingly deceived his wife

If you haven't ever listened to this song you should! This is one of those songs that i can't just listen to in the car or put on some playlist... it requires a place in quiet thought and reflection. There are so many scriptural pictures dipicted: That of hosea and his prostitute wife, judas, the prodigal son, the rich young ruler, the children of Israel and their many idols, etc. Sometimes i forget that on my own i am horribly and repulsively flawed; that there is nothing good or pure about my life except what God has poured into me.

"I am barrabas, I am a thief
I am a murderer, washing your feet
I am a traitor, holding a gun
but you manage a smile
and tell me i'm loved
and all the times that i hurt you
you never bring up
so something is changing in me
we don't have to live like this anymore "

-Alexander


that is why grace is so amazing

think about it.