For The Sake Of The Call lyrics

When you are a soldier I will be your shield

I will go with you into the battlefield

And when the arrows start to fly

Take my hand and hold on tight
I will be your shield, 'cause I know how it feels

When you are a soldier

When you're tired from running

I will cheer you on

Look beside you and you'll see you're not alone

And when your strength is all but gone

Anybody in their right mind

Would've given up their preaching and headed for home

They've been warned a hundred times

But something inside them keeps giving them hope
And just when you think they'd be crying

Instead of the tears, there's joy in their eyes

CHORUS 1

What kind of joy is this

That counts it a blessing to suffer

What kind of joy is this

I know a man named Billy

He's got almost everything

Three stories, two cars, one swimming pool

And some broken parts of an empty heart

And I'm thinkin'...

CHORUS 1

Billy, Billy, Billy, you're a very busy man

But you're running with your eyes closed

You could be missing life all along the way

And you'd never even know it

You're a busy man Billy, Billy, you're a busy man

If I could only fly

I'd go up and look down from the sky

So I could see the bigger picture

And Lord if I could sit with You
At Your feet for an hour or two

I'm sure I'd ask too many questions

'Cause there's so much going on down here

That I must confess I just don't understand

BRIDGE

But I have prayed

And at your feet my whole life has been laid

There's a teacher in a school room

Somewhere on the edge of town

Telling innocent little children what we used to be

They look and listen without a question
They see the pictures passed around

Making facts out of a theory and they all believe

As the lost lead the way

Another heart is led astray

CHORUS

These are the days when the blind lead the blind

Sweet are the branches growing the fruit that comes from the vine

But these are just branches blown by the wind holding on to life

I want to be like them holding on to the One whose life is mine

And I know as I follow him His life will sure show in me

CHORUS

He said you will

Show yourselves to be the ones who follow Me

By the evidence you leave along the way

I wake to the sound of different voices calling my name

Two little ones who want to start another day

And one voice that's calling

Take up your cross and come follow me

CHORUS

I want to get lost

In the shadow of the cross

To answer the call surrender it all

In the shadow

I want to live each (this) day

With a humble heart

That's ready to pay

I saw you staring out your window
Watchin' the people passing by
Taking some notes on what you saw out there
So you would know how hard you need to try
I heard you asking lots of questions
How in comparison you stand
Please let me warn you to be very careful
God wants our best and not our better than

CHORUS
But you know better, better than that

We will abandon it all for the sake of the call
No other reason at all but the sake of the call
Wholly devoted to live and to die for the sake of the call

Nobody stood and applauded them
So they knew from the start
This road would not lead to fame
All they really knew for sure
Was Jesus had called to them
He said "come follow Me" and they came
With reckless abandon, they came

I was eight years old

When I decided to follow Jesus

I started down that road

Somebody told me that this path that leads to heaven
Will not be the easy way

Well I found that to be true

But I also found, (also found)

I found out there’s

Chorus:

No better place on earth

Than the road that leads to heaven

No other place I’d rather be

No better place on earth