Please Sleep Easy - Epilogue (The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life) Lyrics

(No thoughtful person can question the fact that
For the most part
The Christian life
As it is generally lived
Is not entirely a happy life)

I don't wanna wake up
(A keen observer once said to me)
I just wanna stay
(You Christians seem to have a religion
That makes you miserable)
Cutting my teeth
In the movies and in my dreams

(Not something to make them miserable
But something to make them happy)

I love you all so much
And yes I'm alright
I can't say for sure
But I don't think I'll be coming home tonight

(And I began then and there
To ask the Lord to show me the secret
Of a happy Christian life)

(All of God's children
I am conviced
Feel instinctively
In their moments of divine illumination
That a life of inward rest and outward victory
Is their inalienable birthright

Can you not remember some of you
The shout of triumph your souls gave when you
First became acquainted with the Lord Jesus
And his mighty saving power?

How sure you were of victory then
How easy it seemed to be more than divine conquers
Through Him that loved you

Under the leadership of a captain
Who had never been foiled in battle
How could you dream of defeat?

And yet to many of you
How different has been your real experience?
The victories have been few and fleeting
Your defeats many and disastrous

You have not lived as you feel
Children of God ought to live

The best you can expect from your religion
Is a life of alternate failure and victory
One hour sinning
And the next repenting

And then beginning again
Only to fail again
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