Everything seems right - God has planted a vineyard and tended it, but then bad, stinky fruit emerges. What has happened? How can we make things right? Chad gives another encouraging lesson and meditation on this passage, helping us to trust fully in the work of God. Even if we are plowed up and torn apart for a season, perhaps He is accomplishing the good that He wants for us, the good we cannot do for ourselves. Bryan Duncan and guitarist Kid Ramos team up on this song that speaks of God cultivating beauty from the wasteland.

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Lyrics for Beauty from the Wasteland

My life is a wasteland

Trampled and broken down

Briars and thorns are everywhere

In this dry and thirsty ground

I give to You my land

Plant your vines in my soil

Spirit do Your work in me

Lord Jesus, make me whole

Chorus

You bring life from death

And beauty for ashes

Forgiveness for my sins

All that I bring to You is dust and sand

But You cultivate the beauty

Beauty from the wasteland

Don’t let me be satisfied

With wild grapes in this land

Don’t let me choke from the weeds

Won’t You prune me by your hand

Pour down the rain of your Spirit

Stream the sunlight of Your Word

Cause me to root and blossom

Let my soul be undisturbed

Chorus

You bring life from death

And beauty for ashes

Forgiveness for my sins

All that I bring to You is dust and sand

But You cultivate the beauty

Beauty from the wasteland

I will sing for the one I love

For the one I love is You