I KNOW MYSELF

I know myself
I know my deeds
I know my failures
I know my needs
I know my heart
I know my ways
Please don’t depart
You deserve my praise
But its sour grapes
That rule my life
I look for escape
From all the strive
I know you’re mad
Have a right to be
I see the tears
You cry for me
I Want to be stronger
Want to be better
To Sin no longer
Be such a debtor
How can I make
Things right with you
Soothe this ache
Just give me a clue
I see I can’t
I never could
But Jesus grants
All that is good
By his blood
I am set free
Grace like a flood
Flows into me
Now I am saved
From all my sin
My debts been waived
I’m born again
Must spread good news
Go to all my friends
Ask them to choose
Life that never ends


This rhyme is inspired by this scripture in the Holy Bible:

Isaiah 5:1-7 (NRSV)
The unfaithful vineyard

Let me sing for my beloved
my love-song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.
He dug it and cleared it of stones,
and planted it with choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
and hewed out a wine vat in it;
he expected it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.

And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem
and people of Judah,
judge between me
and my vineyard.
What more was there to do for my vineyard
that I have not done in it?
When I expected it to yield grapes,
why did it yield wild grapes?

And now I will tell you
what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove its hedge,
and it shall be devoured;
I will break down its wall,
and it shall be trampled down.
I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns;
I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the people of Judah
are his pleasant planting;
he expected justice,
but saw bloodshed;
righteousness,
but heard a cry!

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