"Reason"
There’s a reason people do it,
Misbehave the way they do,
Not looking for excuses,
‘Cause there’s no excuse, it’s true.
But connect the dots and see the cause,
That produces the effect,
And you will find the reason,
For most every old train wreck.
More times than not there is a hurt,
That never could quite heal,
People do all sorts of things,
To deal with how they feel.
They medicate with chemicals,
And bad relations, too,
The short term to feel better,
But they never really do.
And then that old deceiver,
Takes hold of who they are,
And he will drive and torment,
Much further past, how far,
Than they ever meant or wished for,
And don’t know their way back,
With a wake full of destruction,
And wisdom’s what they lack.
They don’t know God still loves them,
In spite of what they’ve done,
They don’t know He will heal them,
If to the light they run.
But if they turn to Jesus,
He forgives them thoroughly,
And then He’ll show the reasons,
They behaved that way, you see.
He’ll heal the deepest injury,
And empower to get free,
They’ll learn to grant forgiveness,
Let go their history.
And then filled with the Spirit,
He uses what they did,
To help all those still out there,
Who keep their sins all hid.
There’s a reason people do it,
Behave the way they do,
And when God’s grace has healed them,
You’ll see that it is true.
“…by His wounds you have been healed…” (1 Peter 2:24, NIV)
Jesus is the great healer. Broken hearts, lives, relationships, dreams- all are included in His great sacrifice. It is important to know that this is God’s pathway for forgiveness. But it is also God’s way of getting to the root of why we all have sinned and gone astray. The underlying reasons await God’s miraculous grace. And there is nothing He cannot heal. Why? Because nothing was excluded when Jesus suffered and died. He heals what we did and why we did it. Praise the Lord.
Lord, heal us by Your wounds, in Jesus’ name.
Art by Tim Cox, timcox.com. used by permission. Thanks, Tim, and God bless you.