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The Silence of God

Date: Sermon Text :: notes
  • 02-24-13: John 11:1-11 :: Katie and Robert, guitar/piano/synth, mp3

By: Andrew Peterson

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It’s enough to drive a man crazy; it’ll break a man’s faith
It’s enough to make him wonder if he’s ever been sane
When he’s bleating for comfort from Thy staff and Thy rod
And the heavens’ only answer is the silence of God
And it’ll shake a man’s timbers, when he loses his heart
When he has to remember what broke him apart
And this yoke may be easy, but this burden is not
When the crying fields are frozen by the silence of God

And if a man has got to listen to the voices of the mob
Who are reeling in the throes of all the happiness they’ve got
When they tell you all their troubles have been nailed up to that cross
What about the times when even followers get lost
‘Cause we all get lost sometimes

There’s a statue of Jesus on a monastery knoll
In the hills of Kentucky, all quiet and cold
And he’s kneeling in the garden, as silent as a stone
And all his friends are sleeping, and he’s weeping all alone
And the man of all sorrows, he never forgot
What sorrow is carried by the hearts that he bought
So when the questions dissolve into the silence of God
The aching may remain but the breaking does not
In the holy lonesome echo of the silence of God

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