Take My World Apart

I used to listen to this song on repeat when I was in high school. This morning I was brought to tears listening to the Christian station driving into work. Obviously, my Pandora has been set to my David Crowder station all day, and World's Apart just came on. I couldn't help but put the volume up a few notches and sing along to a few lines  all of it (my boss is out this week).
I was just as struck to the heart by these lyrics as I used to be (emphasis mine):

"I look beyond the empty cross
forgetting what my life has cost
and wipe away the crimson stains
and dull the nails that still remain.
More and more I need you now,
I owe you more each passing hour.

The battle between grace and pride

I gave up not so long ago.

So steal my heart and take the pain

and wash the feet and cleanse my pride

take the selfish, take the weak,

and all the things I cannot hide.

Take the beauty, take my tears
this sin-soaked heart and make it yours.

Take my world all apart

take it now, take it now!

And serve the ones that I despise

speak the words I can't deny
watch the world I used to love

fall to dust and thrown away.

I look beyond the empty cross

forgetting what my life has cost.

So wipe away the crimson stains

and dull the nails that still remain.

So, steal my  heart and take the pain,

take the selfish, take the weak,

and all the things I cannot hide,

take the beauty, take my tears,

take my world apart. 

Take my world apart. 

I pray, I pray, I pray.

Take My. World. Apart."

Words to be meditated upon.