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There’s Only One (Holy One) - Caedmon’s Call

Posted June 16, 2005

CD: Caedmons Call - Share the Well.

Left his seamless robe behind
Woke up in a stable crying
Lived and died and rose again
Saviour for a guilty land

It’s a story like a children’s tune
And it’s grown familiar as the moon
So now I ride my camel high
And I’m aiming for the needle’s eye

I chased the wind, but I chased in vain
I chased the earth, but it would not sustain

There’s only one who never fails
To beckon the morning light
There’s only one who sets loose the gale
And ties the trees down tight
When all around my soul gives way
He is all my hope and stay
There’s only one, only one Holy One

Lord, You are my Prince of Peace
But this war brings me to my knees
See there’s a table You’ve prepared
And all my enemies are there
But where my Shepherd leads
Where else can I go?
Who else fills my cup till it overflows?

There’s only one who never fails
To beckon the morning light
There’s only one who sets loose the gales
And ties the trees down tight
To the Solid Rock I fly
Though He bids come and die
There’s only one, only one Holy One

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2 Comments so far

  1. Jim Neff on June 20th, 2005

    Any interpretation Travis?

    –Jim

  2. Travis on June 23rd, 2005

    Yup. =)

    We seem to love making idols — and Western civilization’s “consumer culture” thrives on breeding discontentment, then rushing in to assure us that some thing can make us content. Combine that with a lack of excitement about the gospel, and you’ve got a recipe for idolatry.

    So, like the dumb sheep we are, we gladly chase after these things… but it never works; it’s all a lie. Just like a thirsty man chasing mirages, we seek to quench our thirst and end up with a mouthful of sand.

    There’s only one oasis, and that’s Jesus. We cannot find any good thing—peace, happiness, satisfaction, etc.—except in Jesus. We were made to delight in him, and him alone, so nothing else works. All the universe exists to give Him glory, and all the universe continues to exist only by His will.

    Our idolatry crumbles when we get a glimpse of the majesty of God.

    So even when he’s leading us down paths that seem dangerous, we must go with him—”to whom shall we go? [Jesus has] the words of eternal life,” (John 6:69). So “though he bids me come and die,” I must go, because he is the only one who could possibly grant life; the only one who is worth following at all. And even if, in the end, I fail to attain to the resurrection of the dead… he’s worth every cross I might bear in this life. Every one.

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