Surrender

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Jerone Avel S. Cansino

This long journey I take, lead me to pain and darkness
So I will appreciate more, your light and warm embrace
Let me feel pain make me as hard as the stone
I fear the darkness no more for I know I’m not alone

Deny me of my wants, the things this world would crave
Teach me to be content, for you are all I need
Take away the luxuries, for I know what true joy is
I never fear indigence, after this life awaits better place

As vague as a child take away all my potency
So I could know that without you, I exist in inutility
Impair me now oh God, for I know you use the weak
Deny me of power, oh Lord make me great

Make me a fool my teacher, a dunce as seen by men
So I cannot do away, from the perfect plan of heaven
True wisdom comes from you alone, everything else is folly
It would be of big honor to be labeled a dolt for thee

Give me defeat oh King, make me lie there helplessly
So I will learn the ways of meekness and humility
True victory is at your hands, it starts from surrender
A great triumph it will be, when I become a loser

Indeed oh God, my Lord your wisdom is supreme
Ironic in ways, farther than of what I can imagine
Your omniscient wisdom oh Master it started everything
When I see things the way you do, even in trials I sing

Triumph over me my God, destroy my own will
I lay it over all to you, my sore heart you heal
Like a ship on the ocean, Captain, hold the oar
With the joy I have in you like an eagle I will soar.

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