A Function of Time

Little drops of water make a mighty ocean

A tiny flame can bring down the wildest forest

The biggest mountains do move

Your new born son will become a grown strong man

It’s all a function of time.



What do we have to say about countries publicly at war,

When we kill our own brothers while they sleep!!!

Selfishness is becoming first nature.

Fathers building fortunes with the children's freedom as a foundation.

Not realizing the bill for their expensive choices will be rejected by their graves

While the sons start out life with a deficit as an inheritance.

The ignorance of the poor is the start of their downfall

They sell their rights for a bowl of Instant gratification

(....It never tasted better)

Which turns in their belly’s as the temporary gives way for the permanent

Its all a matter of time

To show his love, he got her a rock bought with his neighbours blood

She shows off his love proudly to every one she meets,
but ow there is blood on her hands, where is the love in that?

They cried out in pain; the earth was them burning up

And I heard the fathers blame God

How quickly we forget that when things go up, they will surely must come down

So we blaze each day up, with our cigs and bigger engines

As we come to the alter to cry, destroying the earth with every step.

Baby girl is playing with her mother’s make up, wants to play happy families to pass time

While her mother looking in her daughter’s mirror, stretches out her face remembering a time when she was young and stress less...

All things will come and pass... it's all a matter of time.



As you ponder these things, the clock still ticks

Every action has a price, for which someone must pay

So open your senses and see,

The weeds will continue to grow, if they are not uprooted

The bath will over flow, if the tap remains on

Those mountains will move, if you keep pushing

You can get to the top, if you don’t stop climbing

It’s all a function of time

Time still will pass, whether or not you make use of it

And the results achieved is a function of time

Jesus is coming back

And we all will account for our actions

Anytime now...



©SweetestRuby 2009

While we were sleeping

While he was sleeping,
She received the angel 's news
While they were sleeping,
My King was born.
While they were sleeping,
His sweat turned to blood
While we were sleeping,
He died that we may live.

While we were sleeping,
The world got filled with pain and war.
Young men dying,
Family heads cut off.
While we were sleeping,
The enemy crept in
Fed us lies, captured our hearts and stole our joy.
While we are sleeping,
The alarm sounds loud
The King is coming and every knee will bow. 
So get yourself in order
Don't be left behind,
Cause He might just come...
..While you are sleeping

©SweetestRuby 2009

My purpose

Sometimes I lay in bed and wonder
What is this life all about
I mean, my schooling, my job, my family, their families
Everythings seems like hard work
I think whats the point of life
It seems like a circle, and am looking for a way out
But the spirit encourages me
and this truth sets me free..

I was created just to Give God the Glory
That's the purpose of my life
It has little to do with what I want do
But to bring him glory in all I do
I was created to worship and adore him
To encourage those around me

He said he knows the plans he has for me
He knows all what Iam going through
Though I can't see further than right now
He has great plans for me

He'll give me hope for tomorrow
Joy for my sorrow
Strength for everything I go through
While I keep worshiping and bringing him the glory

So please don't be discouraged by a lie
that you might have heard.
That you have no purpose
You know the devil never ever could tell the truth

We were created to give God the glory
And he'll make a way for you to get to your destiny
We were made for more than just school or a 9 to 5
or to live a hard life in these harshtimes
or just be a bum in front of your tv set
God can make a way of escape if you keep your eye on him.

Ruby xx

Why do you love me so?

Why do u love me so?
I did nothing to deserve it
How can you love me?
I’m so unworthy.
You birthed me out of love
But I this dark world we live its easy to go astray.
You were always there when I needed a friend
But u know in these endz its lame to be seen around with you
So I would do right at home, and try to fit in whichever way possible outside
Can a man hold water and fire in the palm of his hand and all co-exist together?
I repaid your kindness with insults
To your face I told you lies
At your back, I stole from you
I drank with your enemies and denied you times and times over
I remembered u when I was broke, in need of a quick fix
Then dismissed u once I got what I wanted.
I did things that brought u shame,
That got people asking ‘is that really your kid?’
Fitting in was much different than I thought.
So if I did this lil thing extra, then am really in, and we’d be real friends forever.
So for acceptance, I did it. And before I knew it - I did it all.

Having magic fingers became a skill I quickly acquired, seemed like I had winter’s breath all year round.
To be healthy I dealt with products of red grapes till my pocket ran dry then I met Jackie D and we became great friends. My pops always said exercise was necessary to be healthy, I took up … gymnastics, in fact I was an ubber celebrity.
I’d given all of me but it still wasn’t enough.
In me I saw the true meaning of disgrace, I was its definition personified.

I woke up to see u still by my side
In a hospital ward, what was going on?
I had OD’ on some animal pain relievers
And was rushed is as one. Later I checked out as two.
7 months later, just before my 17th still trying to be sober
my baby was born, but I couldn’t look at her face
I gave her up for a better life
Its not a big deal, it was done to me.
My friends were long gone, n I was all alone.
I didn’t want to be saved
I didn’t feel I deserved it.
I was dirty and used, and that was my purpose
So sin was my home, for so many years.
I sold my soul for ever just to get a light


Then I saw you u again,
All these lies I’d believed for so long
That I was born to be low by the circumstance of my birth
When the truth you’d rained on me all these years,
But I shut my own eyes so I couldn’t see
Why you so pure n perfect
Would have any interest in me, I’ll never know
For my soul was never really mine to sell.
And u saved it and saved my life
Now people don’t understand what I mean
To save a life bout taking a bullet,
So let me enlighten u a little.
I was on my way to hell,
The penalty for my sins was death.
There was no avoidance my debt must be paid.
But You! You! You went down to hell in my place
You received my death, by dying on that cross
You shifted the pain I’d caused, the hurt I felt, the harm I’d done and stuffed them in your wounds.
As your blood flowed it erased my sins from heavens record
My past is no longer mine
For when you soaked me in your blood,
I was like to brand new baby
You birthed me this time in to love
And I know am not from this world, so I can’t fit in.
Now I know you know my thoughts,
But just to be clear am gonna say it out loud
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowhooooooooooooooooo!!!
English has not vocabulerised a word great enough to explain my thanks
Your mercy brought me through, your grace kept me safe
So all that I am is yours
I surrender my all.


 
©SweetestRuby 2009

Best Man

Lord you are the best man i'll ever know
And I thank you cos you love me so
You died on that cross
To restore my life
You'll never leave, cos you're inside of me
You gave your all, that I might have it all
You're making me a golden mainson,
Cos your bride deserves the best

©SweetestRuby 2009

Praising through pain

How did things get this bad?
How did I get here?
How did this pain come to settle and build home in my self
It’s not like I didn’t try to hide it
But it’s beginning to take over
Although I say am in control, the scars are evident
my friends keep offering quick fix solutions I keep rejecting

As I lay my head to sleep I turn it over to you
Asking you taking to take over, I surrender it all.
You said your yoke is easy and your burden is light
That’s what I want Lord
I want to stop fighting and let you work it out
My eyes full of tears shut for in the morning I will have my Joy

The sun rises and as I turn, I feel pains still here
I thought bags would be packed by now
My hope, my prayer, my faith
This pain is too much to bear
Through hope, prayer and faith
I know you hear me, you tell be to keep going
But how can I do your work, when I can’t move
Then I remember you said in all things to give thanks
So am gonna complaining and keep trusting
When peoples see and ask, I tell them to shut up and keep watching
Am a miracle in the making
Not many get to see history made
Am His-Story in real time
So i’ll praise him through my pain
Praise him cos he love me
Praise him cos through my pain he gives me strength
Now I see that weaknesses are unexploited strengths
And ONLY through him are impossibilities possible
Praise him cos he worked my breakthrough
While I was sleeping, he was whipped for my transgressions
While I was sleeping, he died that I might live
While I was sleeping, he said it was finished
While I was sleeping, he conquered the world and beyond
While I was praising, I got set free.

Ruby xx

Some People

Some people live for their fortune
Some people live just for the fame
Some people live for the power
Some people live just to play life’s game
Some people think that the material things
Define what's within
And I've been there before
But that life's a bore
So full of the superficial

Some people want it all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you Jesus
If I ain't got you Jesus
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you Jesus

Some people search for a fountain
That promises forever young
Some people need three dozen roses
And that's the only way to prove you love them
Hand me the world on a silver platter
And what good would it be
No one to share, with no one who truly cares for me

But they just don’t see you give living water
And eternal life that won’t end
And I know that you love me, cos you died on that cross
The world is under your feet, and am the child of the King of kings
So what more could I need, when gain everything just by seeking you
This life is more than just you and me
Waking up each morning following routines
True life begins when you realise its source
God created you in his image to worship and give him glory
Christ died to redeem you from death
He paid with his life that you may live
To fulfil the purpose of your birth on earth and reign with him eternally

some of the lyrics were gotten from Alicia Keys

©SweetestRuby 2009