Worlds Apart

I've recently come to love this song. It's funny because my husband had me listen to it awhile ago because it's one of his favorites and it didn't really have an impact on me. Then Saturday I was doing the dishes with my ipod playing and it came on and it hit me like a ton of bricks. Such a beautiful song.

It's not just the way it's sung, with such passion and conviction as if the song is between just him and God. It's more. The lyrics are amazing. The line "to turn away and not become another nail to pierce the skin of one who loves more deeply than the oceans, more abundant than the tears of a world embracing every heartache" struck me deeply. I had the realization that my sin is like the nails that pierced Jesus' skin. He paid my debt, no questions asked because He loves me that much. And I continue to sin and repierce His skin. This song is the cry of my heart right now. Take my world apart. Everything that I hold closer and above the one who died for me. Take it apart. I've included the lyrics for the song in case you are like me and like to read the lyrics. I highlighted the lines that speak to me.

"Worlds Apart"
I am the only one to blame for this
Somehow it all ends up the same
Soaring on the wings of selfish pride
I flew too high and like Icarus I collide
With a world I try so hard to leave behind
To rid myself of all but love
to give and die

To turn away and not become
Another nail to pierce the skin of one who loves
more deeply than the oceans,more abundant than the tears
Of a world embracing every heartache

Can I be the one to sacrifice
Or grip the spear and watch the blood and water flow

To love you - take my world apart
To need you - I am on my knees
To love you - take my world apart
To need you - broken on my knees

All said and done I stand alone
Amongst remains of a life I should not own
It takes all I am to believe
In the mercy that covers me

Did you really have to die for me?
All I am for all you are
Because what I need and what I believe are worlds apart

I look beyond the empty cross
forgetting what my life has cost
and wipe away the crimson stains
and dull the nails that still remain
More and more I need you now,
I owe you more each passing hour
the battle between grace and pride
I gave up not so long ago
So steal my heart and take the pain
and wash the feet and cleanse my pride
take the selfish, take the weak,
and all the things I cannot hide
take the beauty, take my tears
the sin-soaked heart and make it yours
take my world all apart
take it now, take it now
and serve the ones that I despise
speak the words I can't deny
watch the world I used to love
fall to dust and thrown away
I look beyond the empty cross
forgetting what my life has cost
so wipe away the crimson stains
and dull the nails that still remain
so steal my heart and take the pain
take the selfish, take the weak
and all the things I cannot hide
take the beauty, take my tears
take my world apart, take my world apart
I pray, I pray, I pray
take my world apart