Learn to Turn

What the world sees as it's reality

Is not true to your trust- it's just ashes and dust

We can learn to resist what is only a mist

We can learn to turn, learn to turn.

Are the comforts I seek now masters I serve?

Is the yearning I feel for the things I reserve to myself

The desires that cannot be mine

Am I asking the Lord to rework His design for my sake?

Selfish wants I still try to defend

I know things not done in the Spirit are sin.

As I learn to take flight from the darkness of night

In self denial I gain what the Spirit makes plain

I can see in a light that the Lord knows is right

As I learn to turn, learn to turn...

For to walk away first you must turn

And only the Lord can make the heart yearn

For the power to turn from false security

As I look with new eyes the unseen I see

As I learn to turn from my way of ease

True comfort I find in the God that I please

As I learn to turn, learn to turn

As I learn to turn

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Anthony Foster