Are you paddling in the shallows
Are your ankles getting wet
Safe within your comfy margins
You are in command and yet
There is so much out there for you

If you understood the ceaseless love
I have in My heart for you
Love that forgives so many things
Through Jesus that I view
Then you would know that I chose you

Money is a powerful drug
It tends to rule our life
Always handy when it's there
Absence causes strife
People live and die for it
There's never quite enough

You say that you're a Christian
But cannot grasp the fact
That He is now in charge of things
So stop that silly act
Of being someone that you're not

Here I am, a cosy Christian
Waiting for my bus to come
If I sit here any longer
Parts of me will be quite numb
Surely He has business for me

I don't feel worthy
I have this morbid fear
That God has forsaken
The one He once held near
I do not feel His presence
Around me any more

You cannot be His if you walk by yourself
Refusing all offers of aid
You cannot be changed if the locks of your door
Enforce the stand you have made

When you're torn between The Lord
And something that is sin
It's easy to be justified
And let the devil in
You try and find a way around
The problem that exists

What is it like to be aware
Of every problem going spare
Humanly, you're under stress
Spiritually, you are a mess
Missing out the vital cog
Left to wander in the fog

What am I going to be today
The choice is mine and mine alone
To walk in love, discarding doubt
Or will I sulk, depress and moan
For I have got an off, on switch

Sunday's here, it's time for church
Your routine sharply honed
Out the door by five past ten
Alert and finely toned
Putting right your stack of sins

You who say that you are His
Remind yourselves of what it takes
To be a follower of Christ
Not just walking, talking fakes
Now's the time to be yourselves

To you, we are so thankful
That when we were in need
You gave us thought and sacrifice

My mind prefers to wander
To somewhere else instead
When things become too tricky
I take off in my head
To safer climes and places
Where everything is great

Where is the peace
That you know I'll provide
Why from My presence
Do you want to hide
Have you decided
To go it alone
Into the danger