Shadows

          G               D
Where can I find what I'm searching for
            C             Am       D
To fill the hungry hollow place in me?
       G               D
When I have it all and still want more,
        C               Am                 D
Who can lead me back to where I'm meant to be?
         C
    When this world fades and crumbles
             G                                      D
    There is one thing that's more true than what I feel:
           C
    God is real
                Am               C       D  G
    And I won't settle for these shadows anymore.

Should I learn to hate all wickedness
Keep myself aloof and separate?
Trusting in my self-made righteousness
And the legalistic pride I cultivate?
    I'm forgetting in my self-sufficiency
    That my pardon is already bought and sealed
    And God is real
    And I won't settle for these shadows anymore. 

Is my need to promote myself fulfilled
In the work I do in Jesus name?
Dulling my desire to discern His will
Till my conscience and my ego sound the same?
    When my sense of worth gets tangled up
    In the work I do, His love remains concealed
    But God is real
    And I won't settle for these shadows anymore. 

Debating in defense of His Law and Word
Is His gentle love revealed in me?
Do I talk to make my knowledge heard,
Speak my faith and then refute it with my deeds?
    In my prideful heartless theology
    I've mistaken my self-righteousness for zeal
    And forgotten that God is real
    And I won't settle for these shadows anymore.

C                                 G
Beyond the deceit of sin and blind obedience
  C                              G
Beyond all my self-certainty and doubt
  C                              G
Beyond defensiveness and fragile arrogance
        C                                    D
And the things I hide for fear I'll be found out
    I've discovered joy and abundant life
    And my sinful, prideful, empty heart is healed
    God is real
    And I won't settle for these shadows anymore.