East to West

I don’t normally listen to Casting Crowns, but tonight at prayer, I heard this song, and it totally made me think.

I had just gotten done with praying for this woman that I know of who is really suffering from withdraws. She is really battling her flesh! She is in a ton of pain, surrounded by problems that seem to be unmanageable in her family, suffocated by the influence of her addiction through so called friends, and crawling to Jesus.

She is determined to stay close to him, but she is listening to lies that the enemy is putting into her head. All I know is that the voice of truth will have the victory in her life. And that downward spiral of wickedness will have no authority in her life. Truth overcomes, and that is what she will follow.
Thank you Jesus.

EAST TO WEST Casting Crowns
Here I am Lord and I’m drowning
In your sea of forgetfulness
The chains of yesterday surround me
I yearn for peace and rest
I don’t want to end up where you found me
And it echoes in my mind
Keeps me awake tonight
I know you’ve cast my sins as far
As the East is from the West
And I stand before you now
As though I’ve never sinned but today
I feel like I’m just one mistake away
From you leaving me this way
Jesus can you show me
Just how far the East is from the West
Cause I can’t bear to see the man I’ve been
Come rising up in me again
In the arms of your mercy I find rest
Cause you know just how far the East is from the West
From one scarred hand to the other
I start the day the war begins
And less reminding of my sin
Time and time again
Your truth Is drowned out by the storm I’m in
Today I feel like I’m just one mistake away
From you leaving me this way
I know you’ve washed me white
Turned my darkness into light
I need your peace to get me through
To get me through this night
I can’t live by what I feel
But by the truth your word reveals
I’m not holding on to you
But you’re holding on to me
You’re holding on to me