CHILD OF GOD Lyrics by Forrest Frank
Child of God, ooh, Child of God
Child of God, ooh, Child of God
Child of God, ooh, Child of God
Child of God, ooh, Child of God
I have dear friends who’ve adopted children
And they said the hardest part was filling out the questionnaire
Asking you what kind of challenges you’re willing to live with
What kind of disabilities as the world would call them
You’re okay with in a child that you’re going to adopt
Like are you okay if they can’t walk
If they’re paralysed, if they’re in a wheelchair and you’ve got to push them
Are you okay if they can’t eat and they have a feeding tube
Are you okay if they have some mental disabilities they’re not able to learn
Or they’re lacking cognitive functions
Their brain’s not working as a normal brain would
Are those things that you’re alright with?
And you think, man if I don’t choose that child who will?
If I say I’m not okay with that
Then what’s going to happen to that person
That living being?
What I love when I’m thinking about God adopting us
Is that he says, “I’ll take that and I’ll take the one”
That’s stuck in pornography like a dog to his vomit
He keeps going back to his sin
I’ll take her when she’s starving herself
I’ll take the one who looks in the mirror and hates what she sees
I’ll take the person who sits with the razor blade cutting their arm
I’ll take the one who constantly thinks of themselves
Walks into a room and wonders what everybody is saying about them or thinking about them
Their enslaved to their insecurity
And the list goes on and on and on and on
There’s no disqualifying disability that the Lord turns away
There’s no one that God says, “Oh. They’re too far gone. I can’t save them.”
Jesus’ blood is not enough, he didn’t die for them
Anyone who would trust in the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin can be adopted as God’s children
We can be his kids, not his slaves
Not his workers, not people who are trying to earn our allowance
Not someone who’s trying to earn a wage
But women and men who have been adopted by the creator of the heavens and the earth
To be his children who call his Abba father
American singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as the lead vocalist of the pop duo Surfaces and for his solo work in Christian contemporary music.