Soldier of a lifetime

 Suffering from wounds

 Remembering the battles

 When you fought from noon to noon

 Wondering where the power

 Of your vigilance has gone

 

 Youre feeling weak, feeling empty

 Wondering how, how youll carry on

 

 Broken, bent, and branded

 Just sitting by your sword

 A seasoned, tested warrior

 With no will to serve the Lord

 In your misery you wonder

 If youll ever heal again

 

 Youre feeling weak, feeling empty

 Wondering how, how youll carry on

 

 Then into your line of vision

 Appears that beast of sin

 And you know the ways to snare him

 A spark is lit again

 The strategies youve proven

 Through a thousand battle plans

 Sweep through like intuitionand your swordis in your hand

 

 Soldier of a lifetime

 You know theres no way back

 Each step of faith youve traveled

 Left a canyon in your tracks

 When He asks you you will answer

 Lord, where else would I go?

 

 And when youre weak, feeling empty

 Just know your love for the Lord will pull you on

 

 (Copyright 1989 Angel Isaacs)