Rick Lee James sings a worship song that moves from spiritual turmoil and shame toward faith in Christ. The verses describe storms and loss of direction, but the refrain keeps returning: You are my salvation. It's a journey from lament to praise.
Chapters
When the waves are crashing and the storm won't calm, when I've lost direction and I can't find home, when my guiding stars are hidden by the clouds and the waves are surging into to pull me down.
I will call on him who calms the raging seas, trusting he'll be stronger than the storms in me.
When my journey takes me to the great unknowns, you are my salvation. <LYRICS>When I've lost myself and fallen to my sin, when my shame blinds me to all the grace you give, when I've placed my trust in lies that I've believed, and I wonder how my God could still love me, Christ is enough.</LYRICS> Interceding when I cannot pray.
Groaning words unheard that I may still be saved.
My lament for sin now turns to songs of praise.
You are my salvation.
When the night surrounds me and my fears begin, when the grief is threatening to do me in, when the pain is crushing and I can't escape, and the strength I had is slowly drained away, even in death's shadow, on the dark darkest night.
There is not one breath that you have not supplied.
Give me faith, my Lord, that with the sun I'll rise. You are my salvation.
revealed.
When our days are lighted by the risen Lamb, and our tears are wiped away by God's own hand.
When creation's birth is finally made complete, when all guests are seated at the Savior's feet.
