Everything seems right - God has planted a vineyard and tended it, but then bad, stinky fruit emerges. What has happened? How can we make things right? Chad gives another encouraging lesson and meditation on this passage, helping us to trust fully in the work of God. Even if we are plowed up and torn apart for a season, perhaps He is accomplishing the good that He wants for us, the good we cannot do for ourselves. Bryan Duncan and guitarist Kid Ramos team up on this song that speaks of God cultivating beauty from the wasteland.
Show Notes:
What’s New from 1517:
The Impossible Prize: A Theology of Addiction by Donavan Riley
Broken Bonds: A Novel of the Reformation, Book 1 of 2 by Amy Mantravadi
More from the hosts:
Lyrics for Beauty from the Wasteland
My life is a wasteland
Trampled and broken down
Briars and thorns are everywhere
In this dry and thirsty ground
I give to You my land
Plant your vines in my soil
Spirit do Your work in me
Lord Jesus, make me whole
Chorus
You bring life from death
And beauty for ashes
Forgiveness for my sins
All that I bring to You is dust and sand
But You cultivate the beauty
Beauty from the wasteland
Don’t let me be satisfied
With wild grapes in this land
Don’t let me choke from the weeds
Won’t You prune me by your hand
Pour down the rain of your Spirit
Stream the sunlight of Your Word
Cause me to root and blossom
Let my soul be undisturbed
Chorus
You bring life from death
And beauty for ashes
Forgiveness for my sins
All that I bring to You is dust and sand
But You cultivate the beauty
Beauty from the wasteland
I will sing for the one I love
For the one I love is You
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