Jeff Bourque and I collaborated to write this song, "Fear and Sparrows," based on Luke 12:4-6 as a submission for The Gospel Coalition's "Songs for the Book of Luke" project. Though it wasn't selected, we're happy to release it now on the Thousand Tongues website where you can find a demo, lyrics, and chord chart.
Why do you fear the one
With power to kill the body
And after that can do nothing more?
Why do you fear to lose
A life already passing?
Do you fear the one who cannot touch your soul?
Chorus 1:
I tell you: Fear the One
With the power to kill the body
And after death can cast the soul to hell.
I tell you: fear the Judge
Whose law you have rejected;
For His wrath is more than any word can tell.
Do not fear, my friends,
But watch the worthless sparrows -
God cares for them, though they are for pennies sold.
How can you fear when He
Your ev'ry hair has numbered,
Who gave His Son to ransom back your soul.
Chorus 2:
I tell you: Rest in him
Who killed his Son to save you;
Fear not, for he has raised him from the dead.
I tell you: Rest in him
For it is your Father’s pleasure
To give you all his kingdom in the end.
Words by Eric Schumacher, music by Jeff Bourque.
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