Before The Lord

In the past of my life,

Before I came to the Lord,

Before I found forgiveness,

Before realizing truly that I needed forgiveness,

Before realizing the pain and the hurt,

Before realizing that I couldn’t do it anymore,

Couldn’t keep going through my life,

My life the way that I had,

Believing that I knew all the answers,

Or knew the solution to every problem,

In the past of my life,

I choose things that were not the best,

I made decisions that I have regretted,

I lived my life to my own principles,

And through it all,

Through those decisions,

I reaped truly what I sowed,

There were many heart breaks,

There were many broken dreams,

And I didn’t know how to truly handle it,

And kept feeling someone else could fill,

What only the Lord could truly fill,

I followed the footsteps,

Of people around me,

Those people who were close friends,

The ones that I counted on,

My family was never close,

And there was a path for me to follow,

There was not a knocking on my heart,

As I had no one to really show me His love,

I knew of Him,

Or at least I thought,

But until I finally came to Him,

When I laid my life in His hands,

And realized that my life was nothing without Him,

Now I know Him as my Lord,

As my Savior,

As the one who came to adopt me into His own,

That knew me before I even came to Him,

Before I even was born,

And knew my life choices,

He didn’t push Himself on me,

No, I had to find Him on my own,

And when I came to Him,

It seemed that the past was another life,

That those days were someone else’s,

That my life wasn’t even mine before,

I was lost,

Lost more than I could ever realize,

In that past before the Lord,

But now I have a better hold,

And now I feel more secure,

Because now I know I can rest in Him,

And that He will always carry me through,

And through any other troubles,

Or tribulations,

No matter what I go through,

He will stand with me,

He will never forsake me,

And I know the strength of my Lord.