I don’t know what I don't know I know

I don’t know what I don't know I know, but I know that You know what I need and You know how to show me.  You know how to show me.

I don’t know where my life’s gonna go but I know where I go You will go behind and before me, and even within me.

CHORUS

You’re a good, good shepherd.

Each day Your mercies are brand new.

You’re so true and faithful in everything You do

So I won’t fear tomorrow

Because I know You’ll be there too.

Blessings, praise and thanks be unto You

I know that You care in my joy and despair, Lord You number my hairs when I call You are there, You are with me, You are always with me

Even when I’m afraid, when mistakes I have made, by my side You have stayed for You paid the price to redeem me, to pardon and free me.

CHORUS

BRIDGE Lord, You’re my light and my salvation, my source and my life.  I’m so thankful You love me, You proved it by Christ crucified. 

When I’m caught in a bind or I’m feeling behind at Your throne I will cry and I always will find that You save me, though maybe not like I’m praying

When I feel at my worst and I hunger and thirst or think I just might burst, Lord, You hear, and Your spirit relieves me, by Your word You feed me

CHORUS

When I’m tired and sad or my day’s been real bad, God, You’ll still be my Dad, and in Jesus You’re glad to accept me.  You will not reject me.

When I’m on top of the world and my tongue is unfurled in sweet praise, I’m still Your girl and You’ll still be right with me, if it was good it was a gift from You to me.

CHORUS

BRIDGE

Not with pick, arpeggiated, any order/permutation of chorus, bridge, verse that feels right

Verse GCG

Chorus CGCGCGCD, CGCDEmCGD double-time chord changes

Bridge DCGDCGDCGEmD

This song was inspired as I was praying about something I was asked the other day about how God thought about me.  I know the right answer in my head, but I really don’t know what is implied in understanding it in my heart.  I know that God’s love is in my heart by the Holy Spirit, and I have tasted and understood some of that, but I realized that I didn’t really know what I didn’t know or should know or even what I already knew (haha, confusing).  Good thing God is a good God.

The song is addressed to YAHWEH, the name of the Triune God as one unit (I think) although in some parts I seem to have veered more towards addressing various members of the Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit).

Hopefully the words are fun to sing or read, pleasing to the Lord, and encouraging to anybody who has ever been confused, sad, mad, happy, made mistakes, not known about the future, been afraid, or had an unusual affinity for assonance and alliteration (rhymes with vowels and consonants).

Here are some of the verses that I thought of whilst writing.  If you would like to look up some of the longer ones you can go to studylight.org, or youversion.com (has a lot of foreign language ones).

Ps 23

Ps 139

Ps 27:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

John 6:37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
 Matthew 10:30 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. (also similar in Luke 12:7)

Galatians 4:6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"

Eph 3:16-18
that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith - that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
(may God let us all know this one, how much He loves us!)