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JOY

If life is water I was dry as Tucson dirt
If it’s a gamble, I’d already lost my shirt
If it’s a journey, I was dazed without a clue
I flipped a “U” back to the first love I ever knew

You give me joy that’s unspeakable
And it’s like
Your love for me is irresistible
I can’t fight it
You carried the cross and took my shame
I believe it
You shine your light of amazing grace

If life is a battle, the invasion is complete
If it’s a rhythm, I have found the perfect beat
If it’s a renaissance, I’ve got a new birthday
The world don’t give it
And the world can’t take it away
Bowed and broken, everything’s new
All that I need, you’re like water to seed
And how your love, rights everything wrong
In my weakness
You’re ever stronger, you’re pulling me back
Where I belong

You give me joy that’s unspeakable
And it’s like
Your love for me is irresistible
I can’t fight it
You carried the cross and took my shame
I believe it
You shine your light of amazing grace

Newsboys Joy


WHO?

How you gonna reckon with a God
Like this
When you gonna face what you
Can’t dismiss
What you gonna say the .. Soul
Kiss that is my God?
Fearsome like the sag in a fat
Mans chair
Sweeter than a patch of
Rogaine hair?
How do you define what you
Can’t compare?
This is... my God
And there’s no use explaining
What can’t be contained?

I’m not following a God
I can lead around
I can’t tame this deity
That’s why Jesus is the
Final answer
To who I want my God to be
He’s who I want my God to be


How you gonna reckon with a God
This great
Why you gonna measure what you
Can’t equate
what ya gonna say to the checkmate that is my God?
Stronger than the burn of
An aftershave?
Tender as a burger in
The microwave
Rae that the air
In an empty grave
This is… my God
And there’s no use explaining
What can’t be contained?

I’m not following a God
I can lead around
I can’t tame this deity
That’s why Jesus is the
Final answer
To who I want my God to be
He’s who I want my God to be

How we gonna work this out?
To fabricate a God like this
No doubt
We’d end up worshipping a Christ
Of our own design
But Jesus doesn’t fit that profile
His ways aren’t mine

I’m not following a God
I can lead around
I can’t tame this deity
That’s why Jesus is the
Final answer
To who I want my God to be
He’s who I want my God to be


I’m not following a God that’s
Imagined
Can’t invent this deity
That’s why Jesus is
The final answer
to who I want my God to be
He’s who…

NEWSBOYS: WHO?