Raboni I so want to follow you And be with you at all times Yet now you and we are rejected And we too hear their cries Yet together we move on and on Knocking the dust off our feet Traveling to places never seen As crowds gather in the street
Why do they come seeking you Lord Why to them do we even go So many still do not believe Yet you love them even so They come to hear and to test As we listen our hearts burn With the gift of the Father’s great love Yet this we need not even earn
Again and again you are rejected Reviled, rejected and banned From bringing your message of love Of the reward your Father has planned We have asked that haters be harmed But you will not will it to be today Instead knocking the dust off your feet We turn and now just walk away
Many have tried hard to follow And in him their truth to find Yet told to give their all to him To leave all of this place behind Many have sadly now left us Who could not give him their all To truly and totally follow Who couldn’t fully answer his call
We cannot look back now At what is left behind But only forward and beyond Lest the past our hearts remind For he brings life and fulness of love To all who offer selves, true and fast We’re called to never ever look back At what is now our entrusted past For he is now our life and our hope Bringing us the truth of the God of love Leading us to his heavenly home And a place with him above
Dear Jesus, Help me to truly follow To stay close all and every day To leave all behind that pulls me Away from you and your love To learn and to believe all And to teach it as I live today