This song appears on "The Whole Spirit: Redemption Songs," which is available for stream and download at toddhoover.bandcamp.com.
IF YOU'RE THE SAME GOD
By Todd Hoover
If You are the God who still reaches down
to pick up the people You push to the ground;
if You're that same Lord, the one holy Name
who sang with the faithful once screaming in vain;
if You are the God who bristled with wrath,
but still carried Israel back to its land,
redeem me, O Lord -- stay true to Your past
and say that these praises aren't all that I have.
O God, do You cackle aloud from Your throne
to see me eternally hurt and alone?
Is all of this singing a waste of my breath?
Is nothing worth trusting but sorrow and death?
