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"All I Ever Wanted"
Woody Winchell
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I don't want
False validation
I don't want
To serve the beast within
I don't want
To worship the dragon
I don't want
My ego
To be on the throne
I want deliverance
From this body of death
I want to acknowledge
Who You are
Within me
Setting me free
From idolatry
Worshiping me
Instead of Reality
Christ in me
My hope of glory
Not my story
But His
My flesh hushed
Before His presence
Not knowing anything
But Him
Refusing the beast
Clamouring for attention
I turn
Full face to the Son
I learn
How to be loved
To need nothing
For my approval
Allowing the removal
Of vain glory
He is my story
He sets me free
Just to be
In utter simplicity
Of genuine faith
Living by grace
In glorious liberty
Delivered from captivity
To self
The deathly beast
Has no place
I am face to face
With Truth
I am loosed
From self righteousness
Always comparing
Always looking
For applause
For my own works
My attention jerked
Around to the beast
All about me
Trapped in deceit
Trying to complete
My own goodness
When I have none
Only the dragon
Controlling the beast
Operating through me
Until I turn
Until I learn
To submit
To love's deliverance
Until I acknowledge
Who God is
Bowing low
Before His throne
Not retaining my own
Simply returning
My heart in worship
I defeat the beast
Removing my ego
From the throne
Seeing Christ alone
The dragon has no power
To influence
The beast within
He is defeated
By the blood of the Lamb
I know whose I am
I don't want recognition
I don't want foolishness
I don't want myself
I recognize the beast
It is me
Giving place to evil
Craving validation
I refuse the temptation
To stroke my ego
I choose to know
Who God is
In the secret of my heart
Letting Truth impart
My eternal worth
Nothing from this earth
Can satisfy
I recognize
The holy from the profane
I don't want anything
But to know Him
Freed from within
No longer controlled
By my ego
I let go
The beast is no more
Grace has taken over
Self is defeated
The dragon unseated
I am accepted
In the Beloved
All I ever wanted
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