HE'S ALIVE AND SUNDAY'S ON THE WAY

CAUSE WE LOVE HIM

CAUSE WE LOVE HIM

HE SENT THEM OUT, SOME TWO BY TWO

AND THEY WENT THOUGH THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO

OF HIS WILL AND HIS WANT, THEY HAD BARELY A CLUE

BUT THEY WERE SENT AND THEY WENT CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.

THEY WENT THROUGH THE HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES AND THORNS

THEY WERE PELTED WITH STONES AND WERE TAUNTED BY SCORN

THEY WERE RIDICULED, MOCKED FROM THE DUSK TO THE DAWN

BUT THEY WERE SENT AND THEY WENT CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.

MIRACLES HAPPENED AND THE CROWDS LARGE THEY GREW

HEALINGS AND DELIVERANCES AND SALVATIONS TOO

DEMONS RAN OUT WHEN THEY WERE COMMANDED TO

AND THE DISCIPLES' FAITH GREW CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.

AND TIME WENT ON AND THE CHURCH GREW IN NUMBER

THERE WAS LITTLE TIME FOR SLACKING AND NO TIME FOR SLUMBER

LOST HUMANITY GOT FOUND AND THE WORLD WEPT AT THE WONDER

AND IT SPREAD ROUND THE EARTH CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.

INNOCENT MEN, NEWLY FREED, NEWLY BORN

PREACHED IN THE MARKET PLACE TO THE LOW AND FORLORN

AND WALKED CARRYING THE GOSPEL TILL THEIR TIRED FEET WERE WORN

BUT THEY WALKED AND THEY TALKED CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.

THEN CAME THE DAY WHEN THE LOST ONES REBELLED

AND DECIDED THEY'D RATHER CONTINUE ON INTO HELL

AND THEY SILENCED THE CHRISTIANS AND TOLD THEM NOT TO TELL

BUT THEY COULD NOT BE SILENT CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.

AND THE WOLVES ROSE UP AND CORNERED THE SHEEP

DISPATCHED THEM AT NOONDAY AND SLAUGHTERED THEM IN THEIR SLEEP

DEVISED TORTURES ANEW TO MAKE THEIR CHILDREN WEEP

BUT THEY DIED IN THEIR JOY CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.

AND THROUGH THE AGES, TIME'S MARCHED ON

AND CLOSER NOW ARE WE TO HOME

THE SHEEP TO THE SHEEPFOLD, TO THE PLACE WE BELONG

WE MARCH ON AND WE FIGHT CAUSE WE LOVE HIM,

THE WORLD IS FULL OF DANGEROUS SNARES

PITS OF PERSECUTION AND COFFINS OF CARES

THE WOLVES FAR OUTNUMBER THE SHEEP HERE AND THERE

BUT THE SHEEP GIVE THEIR LIVES CAUSE WE LOVE HIM.

NOW HERE AT THE EDGE OF THE END OF ALL THINGS

WE CAN LOOK INTO HEAVEN AND BEHOLD, OUR HEARTS SING

THOUGH THE WOLVES BITE AND BRUISE US, WE WILL GIVE EVERYTHING

AND WE REGRET NOT A THING CAUSE WE LOVE HIM.

©by Voo Shining Stone

June 5, 2004

1:40 p.m