After Six Days
song two from After Six Days
After Six Days (Mark 9:2-3). In the midst of everything going on in my life I lose sight of who He is and what He is doing. He led them (and leads me) up on the mountain for a taste and reminder of the transformation that is coming and in process - and who He is with me even now.
When I wrote After Six Days (21 December 2004), the kids were recovering from Scarlet Fever, and seemed to be getting sick again, and I was wrestling wtih that and praying that God would heal everyone, let us be healthy for the rest of the Siberian winter. And I was reading Mark 9 in my time with God that morning. I had written about my prayers for the kids in my journal, and wrote some thoughts about “Elijah has come” and Moses and Elijah. I was contemplating what that meant and had kind of skipped over verse 2 and was focusing more on the wonder of the transformation itself. I wrote “the main thought I keep having is that every now and then, in the middle of our ordinariness, His glory breaks through, and what we thought was normal and ordinary is suddently bathed in light.” I wrote a few words about how I imagined the disciples might have felt, and then wrote “why am I having such trouble expressing something about glory breaking into the ordinary?” and following that in my journal are the words to this song, After Six Days. I ended it with “please take me up on the mountain where I can be all alone with You, and there please let me see You before me, oh, but let me know You've been with me all along, Give me eyes to see how You've been wtih me all along.” That last little prayer didn't make it into the song as it seemed redundant, since it is really the whole prayer of the song. And that is my prayer still today, that I can see more and more in my every day life that He really is with me still, even when the glory is veiled. And that He has been all along.
After Six Days Lyrics
Here I am in this world of men
so much to say, so much to do
and i can get so indifferent
to the things of God
to the things of You.
Though Your world constantly surrounds me
sometimes I just don't have the eyes to see
through this veil of my own understanding
what is my world? It's only me.
But after six days You led them up on the mountain
where they could be all alone with You
and there You were changed before them
but You had been with them all along
Without the eyes to see what's right here next to me
I can feel so alone
In the world of men, where we're consumed with things of dust
and we can't escape the feeling something's wrong
But after six days You led them up on the mountain
where they could be all alone with You
and there You were changed before them
but You had been with them all along.
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