Wait for the Lord My Soul

Hey everybody, happy Monday! Wanted to share a new worship song I wrote this past year while in quarantine, called “Wait for the Lord My Soul.” The lyrics are taken from Psalm 130. This was our second time singing it with the church, and yesterday it was fun to have Alex lead it instead of me (first time I sang it was on our livestream a day after writing it). What a blessing to hear the voices singing it now in person.

We are just beginning an eight-week season as a church going through a book called Emotionally Healthy Spirituality and a companion book Day by Day. Learning to wait, to be still, to trust in God’s forgiveness and salvation are coming up again and again in the materials we are going through. It’s hard for me to slow down, to breathe, to even spend two minutes in silence (as we are doing several times a day). I just want to do and do, go and go, keep producing, keep busy —tempted to value myself by what I get done. Yet I serve a God who rested —he knew when to say enough, when to stop (inferred by the very word Sabbath). The words of this psalm and new song are helping me to learn to stop, slow down, teaching my soul to wait for the Lord.

WAIT FOR THE LORD MY SOUL
(based on Psalm 130)

I wait
Wait for the Lord, my soul
I wait
Wait for the Lord, my soul
Like the morning

I put my hope
in Him, in Him
Redeem me from
my sin, my sin

His Name, His love
His word, His word
We cry, we hope
We serve, we serve

Israel, put your hope
in the Lord
For his love never fails
He himself
Will redeem our sin
We wait for him
We wait for him

WAIT FOR THE LORD MY SOUL
in D

Chorus
D/F# G2 / Bm A
D/F# G2 / A
(repeat)

Verse
Em / Bm A
Em / G A
(repeat)

Bridge
F#m7 / GM7 / Bm7 / A
GM7 / D A / Em / Em
A / break

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