Chords for Rich Mullins - Hold Me Jesus (with Introduction)

_ When it all came together was when we were in Amsterdam and I _
Just became really keenly and uncomfortably aware of
how
you know you think you're getting somewhere you think you're
Growing as a Christian that kind of thing and all of a sudden you're in a situation where you go
I am just as susceptible as I was when I was 16 to a lot of things and and
Sometimes we can be really hard on ourselves about that.
Well Beaker and I were talking in a
In a train station about the whole thing
_ We're kind of where we were and where we wanted to be and we'd gone into some actually some pretty explicit detail
about the nature of our temptations and and
Of those struggles and and this guy leans over and we're in Germany, right?
And so we're assuming no one's going to be interested enough and whatever we would have to say to
Actually bother to translate and listen
But this guy leans over in the train station the only other guy in there and he says excuse me
but are you rich Mullins and so I had to
think back over our conversation to see if I was or not and
decided that I must be
Whether or not I like who I am that that is who I am and once again
it's back to the ragamuffin thing the realization that people are gonna judge you and
There are I think actually people who look for excuses to condemn you and look for excuses to _ _
Say bad things about you
but God doesn't look for those kinds of excuses and I think the conclusion of the matter for me was that I
I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and
Let my security be in the
All sufficiency the grace of God
than to live in some kind of
pietistic
illusion of
Moral excellence not that I don't want to be morally excellent
But my faith isn't in in in the idea that that I am more moral than anybody else
my faith is in in the idea that God and
His love are greater than whatever sins any of us commit _ _ _ _
[G#] _ _ _ _ _ Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all
_ When the mountains look so big
But my [C#] faith just seems small
Hold me [F#] Jesus
Don't you get like a [B] leave
You have been [F#] king of my glory
Won't [C#] you be my prince of peace? _ _ _
[G#] _ _ _ And I wake up in the night and [F#] feel dark
_ _ [A#] It's so hard [B] inside my soul.
I [C#] swear there must be blisters on my heart
Oh
_ [F#]
[G#m] Some chicken like a [B] leaf you have been king of my glory
[G#] Should [C#] be my prince [F#] of peace
_ Surrender don't [G#m] come natural [F#] to me
I'd rather fight you for something.
I don't [C#] really want [F#] to take what you give
And [B] I beat my head against so many walls now.
I'm [C#] falling down
[G#m] falling on [G#] my knees [C#] and
[G#] The Salvation Army band is playing [D#] this him _
And your grace [G#] rings out so deep makes [C#] my resistance
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [F#] _
[B] You have been king of my glory
_ [G#] _ _
[F#] _ _ [C#] Oh
Me Jesus _ _
[B] _ You have been king [F#] of my glory
[G#] Won't you be my prince?
You have been king of [B] my glory [G#] won't you be my Prince
[C#] _ _ [G#] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _ [D#m] _