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Secret Ambition Lyrics
Young man up on the hillside
Teaching new ways
Each word winning them over
Each heart a kindled flame
Old men watch from the outside
Guarding their prey
Threatened by the voice of the paragon
Leading their lambs away
Leading them far away
CHORUS:
Nobody knew His secret ambition
Nobody knew His claim to fame
He broke the old rules steeped in tradition
He tore the holy veil away
Questioning those in powerful position
Running to those who called His name
But nobody knew His secret ambition
Was to give His life away
His rage shaking the temple
His word to the wise
His hand healing on the seventh day
His love wearing no disguise
Some say, "Death to the radical
He's way out of line."
Some say, "Praise be the miracle
God sends a blessed sign.
A blessed sign for troubled times."
CHORUS
Teaching new ways
Each word winning them over
Each heart a kindled flame
Old men watch from the outside
Guarding their prey
Threatened by the voice of the paragon
Leading their lambs away
Leading them far away
Nobody knew His secret ambition
Nobody knew His claim to fame
He broke the old rules steeped in tradition
He tore the holy veil away
Questioning those in powerful position
Running to those who called His name
But nobody knew His secret ambition
Was to give His life away
His word to the wise
His hand healing on the seventh day
His love wearing no disguise
Some say, "Death to the radical
He's way out of line."
Some say, "Praise be the miracle
God sends a blessed sign.
A blessed sign for troubled times."
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I realize more and more every day that I don't know WHO Jesus really is. This song reminds me how much I don't. I'm struck by this uncanny feeling every time I read the gospels and hear Jesus' words, almost like hearing a sound in the next room and expecting to find your cat had knocked something over, only to be greeted by a ghost, or walking at night, and not realizing til the next day that you'd been walking two feet away from a 300-foot drop off a sheer cliff. The church often makes two mistakes simultaneously: one is thinking they know exactly who God is, and the other is thinking they can't know Him anymore than they already do. The more I learn about God, the more wild and mysterious- alien even- He becomes to me. No one expected the Gospel. These people expected their Messiah to be a vengeful warrior who would slay all their enemies, only to meet a humble carpenter named Jesus, and have Him explain that they themselves were also God's enemies. Then He died for His enemies and they became His friends. Thinking they'd only been following a good man for three years, to realize He was actually the One Who formed their beating hearts. For Phillip to ask to see the Father, and for Jesus to reply, "Phillip, have I been with you so long, and you still don't know Me?" Phillip must have turned white as a ghost. John said, "behold what manner of love the Father has given unto us; that we should be called the sons of God" I bet in total disbelief and surprise 'til the day he died. Paul said, "Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we could ever ask or imagine".