“Farther Along” | SONG of the week

Artist: Josh Garrels
Album: Love & War & the Sea in Between
Year: 2011

Farther along, we'll know all about it.
Farther along, we'll understand why.
So cheer up my brothers; live in the sunshine.
We'll understand this all by and by.

Tempted and tried, I wondered why
the good man dies, bad man thrives,
and Jesus cries cause he loves 'em both.
We're all cast-aways in need of rope,
hangin' on by the last threads of our hope.
In a house of mirror full of smoke,
confusing illusions I've seen.

But where did I go wrong? I sang along
to every chorus of the song
that the devil wrote like a piper at the gate,
leading mice and men down to their fate.
But some will courageously escape
the seductive voice with a heart of faith
while walkin' the line back home.

There's so much more to life than we've been told.
It's full of beauty that will unfold
and shine like new-struck gold, my wayward son.
The deadweight burden weighs a ton.
Go down to the river and let it run,
wash away all the things you've done—
forgiveness alright.

Farther along, we'll know all about it.
Farther along, we'll understand why.
So cheer up my brothers; live in the sunshine.
We'll understand this all by and by.

But still I get hard pressed on every side
between the rock and a compromise.
Like truth and a pack of lies fightin' for my soul,
I've got no place left to go.
Cause I got changed by what I've been shown.
It's more glory than the world has known.
It keeps me ramblin' on.

Skipping like a calf loosed from its stall,
I'm free to love once and for all.
And even when I fall, I'll get back up
for the joy that overflows my cup.
Heaven filled me with more than enough,
broke down my levees and my bluffs,
let the flood wash me.

And one day when the sky rolls back on us
and some rejoice and the others fuss,
cause every knee must bow and tongue confess
the Son of God—He's forever blessed.
His is the kingdom, and we're the guests.
So put your voice up to the test.
Sing, "Lord, come soon." Ah, yes!

Farther along, we'll know all about it.
Farther along, we'll understand why.
So cheer up my brothers; live in the sunshine.
We'll understand this all by and by.

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal."

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 NKJV