I fell in Love with Jesus

 

I fell in Love with Jesus

 

I fell in love with Jesus when I was just a child, OH yes, I fell in love with Jesus as a child in my mother’s lab, 

As she sang about Jesus and told the stories of how He stepped from glory to show me how to be a man. Telling me how to be a man.  

 

But how what a sad story as I grew and became a man, yes, what a sad, sad story of how I fell out of love with Jesus, and fell in love with self. 

It was a sad, sad story of a life lived without that man.

 

I’m told it's a common story of many men like me, who go for the glory and forget who the King is.  

 

A most amazing story of a King who came from glory to save a wretch like me, Jesus came from glory to redeem you and me,

A story of amazing grace, it is amazing grace  

 

A life without His glory so empty you see, and how I long for the peace I knew on mother's lab, but that is long gone, how empty it all seems. 

 

And now once more I’ve looked beyond this darkness at the heavens above and the God of my mother lab. 

So clear, O’ so clear I see Jesus once again, not on mother’s lab, but now, as a man. 

 

Often I was drowning in all lives demands, but when I came to Jesus He took me by the hand, He took by the hand.

 

Yes, He walks with me and we talk, and I’m learning from Him about being a man.  I’m experiencing the glory of Jesus, whom my mother and dad told me about as a kid.

 

Free again, free to share and talk about His amazing joy and peace, as I walk with Jesus on the highways of this life, learning and depending on Jesus as I learn to be a man, 

I’m learning to be a man. Yes, I’m learning to be a man, walking with Jesus hand in hand.

 

^“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

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Bob Rice