How do you feel about yourself as a Christian?
Perhaps you feel like a failure. Your prayer life is patchy (at best), and your Bible reading plan is a distant memory. To make it worse, you’re battling the same old sins, which never seem to abate.
Or maybe you feel good. You pray and read the Bible daily, and give generously each month. The battle over sin feels easy, and life feels fruitful.
However you feel—flourishing or failing—the truth is that we come to the Father with empty hands. He’s not checking your good works at the door with a sign reading ‘only successes allowed’. Nope. You come to the Father through Jesus’ spotless record, counted as your own. Whether you’ve had the best or worst week, you are covered with Christ’s perfection, not your failures or achievements. You bring nothing.
This is at the heart of our homegrown song Come to the King. It’s an invitation to return to God with all our brokenness, sin, and weakness. As one line puts it: “Bring all your heart, you’re welcomed as you are.”
God doesn’t ask us to polish ourselves up beforehand, but to come empty-handed and messy and let him do the mending.
Lyrics and chords below.
Artwork by Emily Ikoshi
Lyrics
Verse 1
Come to the fountain
Come to the feast
Come to the one
Whose mercies overflow
Come to the King
Verse 2
Bring every failure
Bring every fear
Bring all your heart
You’re welcomed as you are
Come to the King
Chorus
All we need is found in you
Our strivings cease
Our hearts renew
Such holiness
Yet in love you’re calling to us
Come to the Father
Come to the King
Verse 3
His grace is a river
His mercy a flood
His Son on the cross
A sacrifice for us
Come to the King
Verse 4
A yoke that is easy
A burden that’s light
A heart unafraid
To meet us in our pain
Come to the King
Bridge
For all who are empty, you’re calling us home
For all who are hungry, you’re calling us home
For all who are broken, you’re calling us home
We come as we are to adore the one who’s
Sovereign and mighty, forever enthroned
Righteous and worthy, forever enthroned
Holy and steadfast, forever enthroned
We come as we are to adore the one who’s
Sovereign and mighty, forever enthroned
Righteous and worthy, forever enthroned
Holy and steadfast, forever enthroned
You are our God, and we sing that
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