Temples Lyrics

See the awesome temple rise, agleam within the noonday skies

An altar to the ego on the throne

Within the temple's sacred walls where humanists don prayer shawls

And bow to idols crafted out of stone

Yet far outside the bright confines, a beaten, bruised, and bloodied Vine

Upon the Cross now dies

A failure in the eyes of those whose cultured brows have scorned the Rose

And missed the God Who's hidden in disguise

Temples are fading but love is awaiting in Christ

His sacrifice

Pride will undo but His love will renew

The oasis, in kenosis

Let our temples fall, He is all in all

Ascending through the marble stairs to meddle in divine affairs

And worship at this temple's inner court

For blithely do we take the crown, professing knowledge, bowing down

And worship this divinity of sorts

Yet draw the curtain back, we find that all our sophistries are blind

When faced with Love so raw

We turn from making gods of men, instead encounter Christ's Amen

And recognizing God is all-in-all

Have we chosen pragmatism over deeper, holy wisdom

Of the paradox of pierced hands?

Would we rather anarchy or else the hill of Calvary

And mystery too deep for mortal man?

The god of human reason finds that when exposed to sands of time

All things fade away

Love alone, in cruciform is strong enough to stand the storm

And in the end, the rugged cross remains