Pick Up My Cross

What do you do when you have lyrics but no musical skill?  Post them in hopes that a musician somewhere will be called by God to change poetry into song.  Until then...

Pick up my Cross

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Pick up my cross

And follow him

I know it involves

Some sufferin’

Pick up my cross and follow him,

I know it involves some sufferin’

The world it calls me crazy

Just a tad short of insane

Can’t sing a lick of music

Always miss the first refrain.

But I’m closer than ever to Jesus

When I’m feelin’ others pain.

I don’t pray for it to go away

But to pick up my cross again.

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My neighbors sometimes avoid me

Vendor’s tell me to keep the change.

St. Peter tried to warn us

In this world we are estranged.

With danger all around me

I know an overwhelming peace.

Because I’m persecuted

For lovin’ most upon the least.

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My country says it loves God

But I think we love comfort more.

We don’t like tribulation

Try to keep it from our shores.

But my Savior said I’d have trouble

When I confessed him as Lord.

His every word now cuts through me

Like a sharpened double-edged sword.

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It’s a task I take on daily

Forsaking this world and its sin.

Wouldn’t trade these trials for anything

Just want to pick up my cross again.

We know not the day of his coming

‘Til then we’ll have sorrow and loss.

But whatever day that he may come

He’ll catch me carryin’ my cross.

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