From the recording Glory²
Lyrics
It's everywhere these days and the opposition burns
No matter how good I try to be the prejudice returns
My love of everything good and fidelity to God
Seems to summon mockery, built on a specious facade
On one hand it's tiring, incessantly degrading
But it also sparks a greater drive to keep His light from fading
Troubled on every side, yet not distressed
Perplexed in our affliction, but not in despair
Persecuted daily, but not forsaken
Cast down by the masses, but not destroyed
We'll never give up, we'll never give in
Despite the world's harangue
We'll partner with Christ who paid the price
For our eternal gain
I often wonder why it is so many have forgotten
The glory and peace of following God's Only Begotten
But then the reminder's always there the voices they let in
Deviously persuading them that there's safety in sin
And the faithful word of God in the lives of faithful saints
Is imagined as a target that they ruthlessly arraign
Troubled on every side, yet not distressed
Perplexed in our affliction, but not in despair
Persecuted daily, but not forsaken
Cast down by the masses, but not destroyed
We'll never give up, we'll never give in
Despite the world's harangue
We'll partner with Christ who paid the price
For our eternal gain
This fight is nothing fresh, it's as ancient as time
It's only shifted shape and drastically metastasized
As evil forces try new tricks dismantling mortal minds
I dig my heals in deeper and leave it further behind
Each step I take for Jesus' sake the louder darkness screams
As I call to others, my sisters and brothers to Him to be redeemed
Troubled on every side, yet not distressed
Perplexed in our affliction, but not in despair
Persecuted daily, but not forsaken
Cast down by the masses, but not destroyed
We'll never give up, we'll never give in
Despite the world's harangue
We'll partner with Christ who paid the price
For our eternal gain
Troubled on every side, yet not distressed
Perplexed in our affliction, but not in despair
Persecuted daily, but not forsaken
Cast down by the masses, but not destroyed