The Paradox of a Mountain
Joe Le-Mon
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I never thought I'd be here again Open my ears just to hear again The voice of One who speaks in wind The voice of love that drowns out sin Waiting on transfiguration But this heart's still bent Toward wicked and evil Instead of walking in the path That I was meant to take And pioneer a new pathway But it feels like I'm all talk In Your Master play I wanna be righteous but the mask Proves that I've been acting Talk a good talk But only sometimes it leads to action See I've been living off of yesterday's leftovers No daily bread Just yesterday's memories as they play over Again and again In my mind and it must be a crime to Only reminisce When I was created daily to be Filled with this Spiritual blessing Of Your manifest Presence Could You show Yourself to me A peasant Because I love the mountain moments Where I'm flying like the pheasants But lately I've been in the valley With all these tears on my parchment Yea I like the mountain moments Where I feel like Peter Like God, it's just so good For us to be here Let's build a couple shelters up Just so we can chill here And never go down the mountain But then a voice from heaven shouts And basically tells me to shut up And listen because reality can't Happen in the clouds and I know it's true that You broke The chasm between me and You But life would be so much easier If there weren't valleys to walk through If my dreams always came true Skies always remained blue But that's child's play milk not meat Like growing up on Blue's Clues See I know that the sky must go gray Because we need the rain sometimes We need to feel the lows of life And be drained sometimes Or else we'll get caught up in the highs And be derailed by the lies Thinking that we can sustain ourselves and Only need to pray sometimes Man the devil's at my throat I feel like his prey sometimes Like the vulture's hovering over roadkill As they fly Looking for a chance to swoop down And grab a meal from the sky Pardon if I'm whining But it's just how I feel sometimes I guess I just need some time To process Your process You never take us from mountain to mountain It's never just blessing to blessing Your way of doing things is struggle Sandwiched between the blessing And the times of the grind where it feels Like life's compressing Is when You shape me and mold me And my soul experiences stretching It's the only way that a diamond could come up Out of the rough See I love that use my weakness Just to prove that You alone are tough And as I travel through the stuff of life I know that there's no hiding in this valley's hike The valley exposes my fragility And causes utter dependency So that no man could ever splendor in me And rightfully so Cuz I'm just a jacked up Joe And you're seeing me at my highs But not the One who holds me in my lows And yet, as I reflect on Your story Viewing You alone as Holy I realize that You even changed the meaning Of the mountain top moments Jesus ascended to the hilltop of Calvary Forever changing the meaning of what A mountain moment should be Taking a cross in between Two thieves He showed that even the Mountain moments require surrender and release And the way that God reveals His glory Is through the Slaughtered Sheep So the next time we're on the mountain Remind us of Your own ascent The mountain was the moment Where Your love was meant To be put to the test Not to show Whose the best But to show that a True King Dies in place of the rest So Jesus if I find myself on the mountain Remind me of what it means That I should probably be in the middle Of two people I don't belong in between That a mountain top moment Isn't meant to display my high The mountain top moment is where I come to die And if I find myself in the valley of despair Where I've become numb to Your presence And can't even sense You're there Help me to know that's where Your Spirit Says prayers through the utterances of my words When the pain I can't bear See the paradox of a mountain that I pray You would see is that Jesus' mountain top moment Resembled our darkest valley He was crucified on a mountain for the world to see And what we thought would be the end Began a new history
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