Lyrical Thought #20

Taste of Heaven

by Tom Booth

Verse

Throughout all of history you have had a choice.
Throughout all of history there has been a voice
calling you and me to the jubilee,
calling you and me to the jubilee.
But it comes down to this:
God can understand your questions.
God can understand your doubts.
But don't you want a world that's bigger than you,
bigger than your pride and all that you try to hide?

Refrain:

Don't you want a taste, a taste of heaven?
Taste the bread of life.
Don't you run away, away from heaven!
Receive the love of Christ,
who sacrificed his life.

Verse

You may struggle with addiction.
You may not love yourself at all.
But God can calm the storm within you and me,
and his love has conquered sin and evil.
Come and be set free!

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of all the world.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of all the world.

And on this jubilee,
Christ gives his body, blood, soul and divinity,
for the forgiveness of our sins.
And many, sage and saint, have tired
to contemplate this truth,
but it comes down to this: