New life shining in your face (Brother Isaiah)

You keep telling me that you’re struggling

I just don’t know if that’s such a bad thing

No, no, no

But you say, Lord

I’m like a flickering wick

I’m like a broken reed

I’m like a ship storm-tossed

And rocked upon the sea

I’m like a mountain torn in two by an earthquake

I look inside and all I see is just this heartache

And so my soul keeping crying from the crucible

Fighting through this night like Jacob did at Peniel

Struggling, O God

Can’t you see that I’m struggling

You keep telling me that you’re struggling

I just don’t know if that’s such a bad thing

No, no, no

You see, child

Every good thing is born of a struggle

Every good thing is born of a struggle

Every truly good thing is born of a struggle, my child

Now, I wouldn’t leave you in this heartache

If it was all for nothing,

Wouldn’t leave you in this struggle

If I didn’t see something being born in you

So beautiful and so true

Like a statue of David

Chiseled away and never faded

There’s a new child rising

New life shining in your face, in your pain

In your everything

If you only knew child

What I see in you, child

I think you’d want it too

But I’m proud of you

As you struggle through

Yes, I’m proud of you, child

As you struggle through

Just remember,

Every good thing is born of a struggle

Every good thing is born of a struggle

Every truly good thing is born of a struggle, my child

(Sing with me now)

Well, I guess I’ll keep on struggling

‘Cause I just don’t know now if that’s such a bad thing 

‘Cause I’m a struggler

But I'm not going to give up now

You give me heart when I feel like giving up

I’m a struggler

Yes, I’m a struggler

And I guess I’ll keep on struggling

To hear Brother Isaiah perform his song Struggler, click on the video below.  To order his amazing CD Poco a Poco from Ascension Press, click here.

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