Lyric and Verse: Your Sorrow is My Crown

In my last post, I mentioned a Narrow Road song that many had come to appreciate early within the band's lifespan.  Before I proceed with any more band posts, I'd simply like to share the scripture verses that many of the lyrics to Your Sorrow is My Crown were built around, including the song title.

Though band stories are fun to share, honestly, they are trivial.  Genuine ministry is what's important.  My hope is that The Lord's Word, shared below in parenthesis, will help someone in some manner.  May any who pass this way be blessed! 

As iron sharpens iron,

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- K –


Your Sorrow is My Crown

(He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.  -Isaiah 53:3) 

Precious child, I know you're crying
feeling scarred and scared, alone
Deep inside, your ember's dying
and it's a long, long way from home

You're searching endlessly for answers
Weary-eyed, from weeping bitter tears
You wonder where this world has left you
as it slips away in years

Oh, My child, come to Me
and I will set your spirit free
Child, in Me you're found (Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. -Matthew 10:39) 
and I will hold you when you're down

For your sorrow is My crown... (They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said.  -Matthew 27:28 – 29)

Will you find freedom in that bottle?
Did that last hit drag you down?
This world is more than you can ever swallow  (What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? -Matthew 16:26)
but in Me your freedom can be found

Come, and we'll soar with wings as eagles (But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. -Isaiah 40:31)
You'll rest within My cleansing sea
I AM and was and will be with you (“Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” -John 8:58)
Take up your cross and follow Me (Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. -Matthew 16:24)

Oh, My child, come to Me
and I will set your spirit free  (So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. -John 8:36)
Child, in Me you're found
and I will hold you when you're down

For your sorrow is My crown...

Trust in My love and I will show you My kingdom  (My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. -John 14: 2-3)

I will give you My life, eternally  (For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. -John 3:16)
I feel the pain you feel and I want to love you  (For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. -Hebrews 4:15)
Won't you open your eyes, tonight, and see?

Precious child, I'll hold you tight
Eternal life is yours, tonight

Salvation is in Me  (Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." -John 14:6)