SOME SONGS BY
CERTAIN VICTORY:

• All Away
• Bear Each Other
• Brand New Thing
• Certain Victory
• Down That Hole
• An Explanation of Benefits
• I Want You
• If Leprosy Consumes Me
• If You Don't Understand
• Manacles and Dreams
• The Morning Train
• Oh, Well (A Meditation)
• Redeem Me
• See Forevermore
• Somerset
• Stand
• Take Me There
• Ten Thousand Aganist Me
• Three Hills
• Who You Are
• You Make Me Aright

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by Paul Lytle

He said to Him, "O Lord, how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father's house."

But the LORD said to him, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat Midian as one man."

Judges 6:15-16

Tell me how to make it right I feel I'm drowning in the sea
Teach me how to make it right I feel a dreadful destiny
I try hard to be good but someone's always watching me
Tell me how to make it good and achieve certain victory

Victory

I walk farther but I find my feet are stuck in miry clay
There's a burden on my back I wish that it would drop away
I try hard to be good but I think that I've lost the way
I'm defeated; I was lost before I even woke today

Victory

There's a man upon my path, he points me where I'm supposed to be
With a word he reaches over and he takes my pack from me
Walking with me he reveals a path I never knew could be
Beyond comfort, beyond love, he is our certain victory

Victory

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Heavenly Father, lift me out of the mire and place me on dry land. I try to live as a good person, but I my efforts fall short of Your example. Your sacrifice is all that makes me complete. Amen.

So much in our lives we are looking for victory that simply will not come. We are looking for more money, a bigger house, a pretty girlfriend, or something. We are looking to win. Have you ever looked around and wondered at how much the deck is stacked against us? Have you ever wondered at the terrible odds against us? After all, every game played on this earth ends in death, no matter how much money you have or how pretty your girlfiend.

The point of the song, as well as the band, which shares a name with this song, is that victory can only be achieved through Christ, and with Christ, the victory is certain because it has already been achieved. Good works are good, sure, but how is that going to get us in the presence of God? How much sin is acceptable in heaven? Are we damned if our sins outweigh a feather, or are we allowed to be more evil? Can we be mostly good, say 51%? Is there no hope for the old miser who rejects his lifestyle on his deathbed? Or what about the good person who becomes selfish in his last years?

We believe in a God who cannot abide the presence of sin, and yet we (each and every one of us) has the muck all over us. We cannot scrub long or hard enough to clean it off. A sacrifice is needed to make it right. Christ is that sacrifice. He is that victory.

-Paul