Words and Music by Derek Webb (Song and album The Ringing Bell available on iTunes)
people love you most for the things you hate
and hate you for loving the things you canâ??t keep straight
people judge you on a curve
and tell you youâ??re getting what you deserve
and this, too, shall be made right
children cannot learn and children cannot eat
stack them like lumber when children cannot sleep
children dream of wishing wells
whose waters quench all the fires of hell
and this, too, shall be made right
the earth and the sky and the sea are all holding their breath
wars and abuses have nature groaning with death
we say weâ??re just trying to stay alive
but it looks so much more like a way to die
and this, too, shall be made right
yes thereâ??s a time for peace, there is a time for war
thereâ??s a time to forgive and a time to settle the score
a time for babies to lose their lives
a time for hunger and genocide
and this, too, shall be made right
oh I donâ??t know the suffering of people outside my front door
and I join the oppressors of those I choose to ignore
Iâ??m trading comfort for human life
and thatâ??s not just murder, itâ??s suicide
and this, too, shall be made right
oh this, too, shall be made right
“For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it. In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.” Romans 8:19-27
Even so, come Lord Jesus.
