It's a really long way home

There's a song I've had stuck in my head recently which I thought I'd share with you. Long Way Home by Steven Curtis Chapman.

It's about the life we are promised as Christians. Some might think that the life of a Christian is easy. That it's just like any life but we have a crutch to hold us up when bad things are happening. Christianity is much more than a crutch, in fact it brings with it more trials than we would otherwise have in our life, trials which are because we follow Jesus.

 

Each of us have baggage in this life, things we carry with us from our past - things we wish we had done, or things we wish we hadn't. Perhaps things which we had no control over which have had a profound (intense) influence on our lives. Sometimes we let these get in the way of our relationsip with God, and our walk with Him.

 

One of the hardest things I think is to remain firm in faith with a sense of urgency (insistent necessity) to continue, to make it to the end, when times are really hard and all we want to do is blame God instead of turning to Him, and also when times are really 'easy' and we want to forget God and just enjoy the moment. But the life we have has been given to us by Him and this life here on earth is just a little bit of it. The rest of it is with Him, so while we're here we should always remember where our final destination is.

I set out on a great adventure
The day my Father started leading me home
He said there's gonna be some mountains to climb
And some valleys we're gonna go through

But I had no way of knowing
Just how hard this journey could be
Cause the valleys are deeper
And the mountains are steeper than I ever would have dreamed

But I know we're gonna make it
And I know we're gonna get there soon
And I know sometimes it feels like we're going the wrong way
But its just a long way home

I got some rocks in my shoes
Fears I wish I could lose
That make the mountains so hard to climb
And my heart gets so heavy with the weight of the world sometimes

There's a bag of regrets,
My should've beens, and not yets
I keep on dragging around
And I can hardly wait for the day I get to lay it all down

But I know that day is coming
I know its gonna be here soon
And I won't turn back even if the whole world says I'm going the wrong way
Cause its just a long way home

When we can't take another step
The Father will pick us up and carry us in His arms
And even on the best days, He says to remember we're not home yet
So don't get too comfortable
Cause really all we are is just pilgrims passing through

Well, I know we're gonna make it
And I know we're gonna get there soon
So I'll keep on singing and believing
What all of my songs say

Cause our God has made a promise
And I know that everything He says is true
And I know wherever we go
He will never leave us
Cause He's gonna lead us home

Every single step of the long way home
          (Keep going, we're gonna make it)
          (I know, we're gonna make it)
          (We're just taking the long way home)     [x3]
(Keep going, we're gonna make it)
(I know, we're gonna make it)
It's just a long way home


God Bless