Entitlement

Limited in mind, limited in body, ruler of our own domain

Claim false authority, like we're the ones who rule and reign

The mentality of the majority is more than metaphorically morphing into a misinformed form of who we were born to be

Torn between, blind perception and divine reality

Torn at the seems, our dreams are built on a faulty foundation of fallacy

This will be our fatality, it's simply a formality

See the casualties of war laid on the floor of the battle scene

We worship how we feel, we don't worship who we should

Yeah we got it bad, and if God calls it bad we call it good

We covet what others have, grab whatever we can, whatever we want, we think it belongs in the palm of our hands, going along with a song and a dance. Worshipping idols to fulfill our entitlement issues

Addicted to the feeling we get when we get what we want so we pick and we choose. Even the air we breath is a gift we receive that we think we're entitled to

Even the air we breath is a gift we receive that we think we're entitled to

They say you get what you deserve so we work hard to earn it

Earn as much as we can to determine our self worth and purpose

Identified by what we buy, it's a sad state of affairs

And when we die we loose it all and just lay there, naked and bare

But none of this stuff can cover us, no it never was enough for us

Nothing we can work for to obtain can wash away the stain

The only thing we're entitled to is judgement for the lives we led

There's nothing we can hide behind, in the end we need grace instead

We spend a lifetime trying to find love in anything and everything this life has to offer it's true

And often times we trade the temporal satisfaction for the things the genuine believer is entitled to

I'm convinced that it's because they don't understand that there exists an order

Of benefits of redemption that's applied to his bride

And the basis of his choice in election was for God alone to decide

And it is not like an "invitation" that one might accept or reject, but rather its the effectual calling drawing to Himself His elect

Regenerating and enabling us to respond in faith toward Christ

Giving us the gift of repentance and revealing the nature of His sacrifice

Binding us with a true intellectual realization of our sinful condition

Converting us and turning us from our previous malicious disposition

Ultimately leading to a legal declaration by God that we've been made right in his sight

Justification being credited to us on the basis of the righteousness of Christ

Adopted to be the children of God and grafted into fellowship

Being bound together by the blood of Christ into a common membership

Sanctified by the spirit given gradual growth in holiness

Increasing in our thinking and behaving in a ways that shows that were chosen

And all the while being preserved and upheld according to his sovereign providence

Giving us confidence that he will carry us to completion just like he promised