Whosoever Will

I ran across a new song that has really been resonating with me. I downloaded it from Amazon and put it on a CD with some other songs, and listened to it a few times on the way to work this morning, and at least 8 times on the way home.... I kept hitting the back button. Its one of those songs that feels it was written for me. I don't typically listen to the group who recorded it, the Perrys, but they did an outstanding job on this song.

All my life, I have heard the phrase "whosoever will", and have known John 3:16 since I was barely walking and talking, but it has never sunk in. I feel like I'm  the exception and God grants me forgiveness grudgingly because He has to - His Word says it. I still struggle with that, but this song really hits home with me, and I have cried more than once while it played...... the bridge is really what gets me. Awesome song,

Whosoever Will, written by Wayne Haun, Joel Lindsey, and Joseph Habedank

Verse 1
She ran away at seventeen,  from what no child should have to call a home
Living life out on the streets, it taught her to be able and so all alone
But one day off in the distance, she could hear the strangest words
And she ran toward the sound of what her broken heart had heard

Chorus:
Whosoever will, let him come to me
I will grant you grace, I will give you peace
Lay your burden down, no matter where you've been
I will love you still, til every wound is healed
Whosoever will

Verse 2
He lived a life of luxury, he lived a life of selfishness and greed
But eighty years have come and gone, and  life had left him with a much greater need
Oh, but how do you start over after so much time has passed?
Then from somewhere in his childhood, these words came rolling back.

Chorus:
Whosoever will, let him come to me
I will grant you grace, I will give you peace
Lay your burden down, no matter where you've been
I will love you still, til every wound is healed
Whosoever will

Bridge:
You are never God-forsaken
Though you might feel that you are
But Jesus is still there waiting
For you with open arms

Chorus:
Whosoever will, let him come to me
I will grant you grace, I will give you peace
Lay your burden down, no matter where you've been
I will love you still, til every wound is healed
Whosoever will