Michael Card lyrics annotations

Greg Plantamura's annotations of

Michael Card Songs

Joy in the Journey

Words and music by Michael Card
© 1986, Birdwing Music/Mole End Music (ASCAP)
First released on the album JOY IN THE JOURNEY (1994), sung by Michael Card
Collected in the 2-disc set THE LIFE

This song is also performed on the 2002 album, SCRIBBLING IN THE SAND (THE BEST OF MICHAEL CARD - LIVE).

One of Michael Card's books (cover picture above right) discussing his lyrics is also titled Joy in the Journey, with calligraphy by Timothy R. Botts. It is available from Thomas Nelson Publishers.

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There is a joy in the journey -

There's a light we can love on the way -

There is a wonder and wildness to life Henry Thoreau explores the theme of wildness as "the Preserver of the World" in his essay Walking.

And freedom for those who obey Romans 8:2 "because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death."

And all those who seek it shall find it Matthew 7:7-8 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened."
See also Jeremiah 29:13 I Chronicles 28:9, II Chronicles 15:2

A pardon for all who believe John 3:18 "Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God."

Hope for the hopeless and sight for the blind Psalm 146:8 "the LORD gives sight to the blind. The LORD raises up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous"

To all who've been born in the Spirit John 3:5 Jesus answered, "Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit."
John 3:8 "The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes; so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

And who share incarnation with Him -

Who belong to eternity stranded in time John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life."

And weary of struggling with sin Paul wrote of his frustrating struggle against sin in Romans 7:18-19 "For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh. The willing is ready at hand, but doing the good is not. For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want."

Forget not the hope that's before you Hebrews 6:18 "That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us"

And never stop counting the cost Luke 14:28 "Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion?"

Remember the hopelessness when you were lost Ephesians 2:11-12 "Therefore, remember that at one time you , Gentiles in the flesh, called the uncircumcision by those called the circumcision, which is done in the flesh by human hands, were at that time without Christ, alienated from the community of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.

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CHORUS: There is a joy in the journey	-
There's a light we can love on the way	-
There is a wonder and wildness to life	Henry Thoreau explores the theme of wildness as "the Preserver of the World" in his essay Walking.
And freedom for those who obey	Romans 8:2 "because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death."
And all those who seek it shall find it	Matthew 7:7-8 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." See also Jeremiah 29:13 I Chronicles 28:9, II Chronicles 15:2
A pardon for all who believe	John 3:18 "Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God."
Hope for the hopeless and sight for the blind	Psalm 146:8 "the LORD gives sight to the blind. The LORD raises up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous"
To all who've been born in the Spirit	John 3:5 Jesus answered, "Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit." John 3:8 "The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes; so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."
And who share incarnation with Him	-
Who belong to eternity stranded in time	John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life."
And weary of struggling with sin	Paul wrote of his frustrating struggle against sin in Romans 7:18-19 "For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh. The willing is ready at hand, but doing the good is not. For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want."
Forget not the hope that's before you	Hebrews 6:18 "That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us"
And never stop counting the cost	Luke 14:28 "Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion?"
Remember the hopelessness when you were lost	Ephesians 2:11-12 "Therefore, remember that at one time you , Gentiles in the flesh, called the uncircumcision by those called the circumcision, which is done in the flesh by human hands, were at that time without Christ, alienated from the community of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.
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