Turn in the Right Direction

Oh does it hurt?
Are you feeling such pain?
Is your lonely heart aching
And your mind nearly drained?

Down in the depths
Fumbling for a way
Look to your right now
Hear what I say:

First you looked
Over that way
You thought in your heart
Mind wandered away

Tempting you slowly
Enticed by the thought
You shuffled your feet
And went where you naught

Tasting the spoil
Enfolded in your hands
Everything seemed
As if going to plan

Your wandering turned
To a quick shuffling hop
Suddenly running
Not wanting to stop!

Fleeing from right
Hurrying to wrong
You tripped and stumbled
Falling headlong.

The mountain was steeper
Than you ever dreamed
Or maybe the hole deeper
Than it first had seemed.

Falling and crashing
Your tumble not ceasing
The distance from the light
Ever increasing

That's when you realized
How everything ached
Such moans, cries, wailings
For own pity's sake

How can one see
Past a pain so severe?
Well look for a helper
That seems so clear!

So eyes searching closely
In the dim light
You can see people
Help is in sight!

But rather than lifting you
They take your hands
Promising sweetness
They give you the bland

Liars they are first
And liars they'll be
They lead not to firm ground
But straight to slippery.

Their weight plus yours
Pulls you down more
Before you know it
You're flat on the floor

Glancing so briefly
Up at that light
You resign yourself
To a faithless plight

Know now what I call!
Hear what I say!
God has forgiven
For us to be saved!

I wailed in my pain
And shook in my tears
And when I glanced up
I only enlarged my fears


But when I quietened
And ceased all my noise
In the still and the silence
I heard His sweet voice.


He called to me gently,
And I strained to hear
I leaned in His direction
His whisper in my ear.


"Take one step
Walk to this Way
If your strength is all but gone
Crawl, then say,
'Father forgive me!
Great is my sin!
I cannot come before you
But Jesus blood in'

I will hear you,
See if your heart is sincere
I will come to you
And carry you safely here.
Do not hope to climb
This treacherous hill alone
That strength is not within you
But in the One apon the throne.
Tell me that you know
It is impossible for you to do
But that you know
I AM will carry through"


The words echoed soundly
Within my awestruck mind
Now I know what I must do
The path, lightened I find.


So tell me when you hear it
His soft gentle call,
Will your heart wander off
Or will you give your all?


Even though He knows your choice
I know you can hear His voice.