What Matters More
Derek Webb
You say always treat people like you'd like to be.
I guess you love being hated for your sexuality;
You love when people put words in your mouth
About what you believe,
Make you sound like a freak.
'Cause if you really believed
What you say you believe
You wouldn't be so damned reckless
With the words you speak:
You wouldn't silently consent
When the liars speak,
Denying all the dying of the remedy.
Tell me, brother, what matters more to you?
Tell me, sister, what matters more to you?
If I can see what's in your heart
By what comes out of your mouth
Then it sure looks to me like being straight
Is all it's about;
It looks like being hated
For all the wrong things;
Like chasing the wind
While the pendulum swings.
'Cause we can talk and debate
Till we're blue in the face
About the language and tradition
That He's coming to save,
And meanwhile we sit
Just like we don't have give a shit
About fifty thousand people
Who are dying today.
I have never loved anything more than this. Also, I am posting it where I can see in my new place so I can always remember what matters more to me.
ReplyDeleteAmen sister! I think that whole loving/not judging thing that Jesus talked about was pretty important to him, since he repeated it quite often. I can't find many places that give us permission to judge, since that's kinda God's job.
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