Breached

I was Jericho
with walls high and wide
But love higher and wider
Swept over the side
Now I've been captured
With love so divine
The wall has been breached
This wall that was mine.

I thought I was covered,
I posted the guard.
Who knew that you'd soften
A heart that was hard?
I locked all the doors
And melted the key
But I never counted
On Your love for me.

Inside the walls
I cowered and cried
No one would rescue me -
No body tried.
And You came along
And softly you said
I'll give You a life
if you give up your death.

The dam's broken loose
We'll let the tide flow
as over and under
Your love quickly goes
Knee deep in water
That washed away fears
And anger and hatred
And traded with tears.

The walls have begun
To crumble in me
And now I'm beginning
To finally see
A wall built on nothing
Round a hole six feet down
Where a little girl hiding
All alone was found.

Who celebrates surrender
when everything's lost?
Only when you see
what Victory cost.
A life lived in love
And a heart filled with grace
Hung on a tree
To die cursed in my place.

The wall was breached
The wall that was high
And now without it
I can see sky!
I'm free to live life
Unbounded by chains
Of sin and of sorrow
And of suffering and pain.