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THE DESERT

This was written at a time when we lived in a literal desert in Israel and I could feel all the things expressed, within my soul, because we were also in a desert in our spiritual lives, a desert through which all pilgrims on the journey to the city of God must pass.

This writing was also prophetic of events that would shortly come to pass as we spoke the Word of God to Paul, whom the Lord had given us to be our friend. As a matter of coincidental fact, the day of this introductory writing (Oct. 9) is, I believe, the very anniversary almost to the hour, of Paul forsaking his wife in obedience to the Lord, to walk in the Way of Life.

Lyrics by Victor N. Hafichuk

Music by John Capek

This desert is dry and parched 

And I’m consumed with thirst 

Have I put the horse before the cart

Am I saved or cursed? 

 

Can I escape this burning sun 

Or the circling birds of prey

Are there things I should have done 

Or should I wait… for that blessed day… 

 

CHORUS 

When the One I know will surely come 

Who has promised to set me free 

There’s no turning back, nowhere to run 

With Him my eyes will see 

I will follow wherever He leads 

That’s what I believe. 

 

The harder come the trials 

With storms along the way 

I’ve trodden many miles 

In search of gentle shade.

 

There’s no comfort for my burning soul 

Mirage or reality? 

One day I know this trial will go 

To the place where He will be… 

 

CHORUS 

Where the One I know will surely come 

Who has promised to set me free 

There’s no turning back, nowhere to run 

With Him my eyes will see 

I will follow wherever He leads 

That’s what I believe. 

          BRIDGE 

Jagged treacherous rocks 

And circling birds of prey 

Won’t ever turn His faith around 

With Him I’ll arrive to stay.

 

The harder come the trials 

And through this burnt mirage 

I long to see what’s real 

Not Satan’s sabotage.

CHORUS

When the One I know will surely come 

Who has promised to set me free 

There’s no turning back, nowhere to run 

With Him my eyes will see 

I will follow wherever He leads 

That’s what I believe. 

 

I will follow wherever He leads

That’s what I believe.