Come Home

Have you hungered in the wilderness for a peace that your heart knew before?
Have you wandered finding something less when inside you've been longing for more?
If you remember how it used to be when you lived your life more abundantly,

Come home, come home.
If you're tired and weary, come home.
The Father is waiting to welcome His own.
You've been gone so long.
Come home.

You've been searching since you said good-bye like a child with a lesson to learn.
But there's mercy in your Father's eyes as He waits for the day you return.
And it won't matter where your heart has been when He holds you close in His arms again.

Come home, come home.
If you're tired and weary, come home.
The Father is waiting to welcome His own.
And you've been gone so long.
Come home.

Oh why do you keep running from the One who loves you most,
so far from where you know you want to be?
Patiently He's waiting and He longs to hold you close.
Even now He's calling, softly and tenderly:

Come home, come home.
If you're tired and weary, come home.
The Father is waiting to welcome His own.
And you've been gone so long.
You've been gone so long.
You've been gone so long.
Come home.

I wish you could hear it. The very music of this song, let alone the lyrics, seems to speak of God's desire to hold us in His arms, to welcome us back into His fellowship. He is so loving and patient. Let Him hold you today, let Him minister to your heart His deep love for you.