Empty me out / Fill me with you Lord there is nothin' / I can give to you I lay down my life / Here at your feet You give me life / So completely
Now, I... I died with you / Was buried with you The moment I believed And I... I rose with you / Ascended with you Into the heavenlies
Lord, it's not me / It's you inside of me And Jesus, You're all / These eyes can see
Empty me out / Fill me with you Lord there is nothin' / I can give to you I lay down my life / Here at your feet You give me life / So completely
Now, I... I died with you / Was buried with you The moment I believed I... I rose with you / Ascended with you Into the heavenlies
I... I died with you / Was buried with you The moment I believed I... I rose with you / Ascended with you Into the heavenlies
Lord, it's not me / It's you inside of me Jesus, you're all / These eyes can see
Lord, it's not me / It's you inside of me Jesus, you're all / These eyes can see
Empty me out Empty me out So completely
Liz Vice, "Empty Me Out"
Interesting...that this song, this lyric opens my heart anew to Paul's celebration of 'kenosis'...the emptying out of ego, of self-assessment, of attachments...that reveals God's desire, God's peace, even God's silence in my soul. "It's you inside of me / Jesus, you're all these eyes can see." What does such a practice mean in a world so fractured by division and fear? If we 'empty' ourselves out -- as disciples of Christ Jesus, with the 'same mind' -- what kind of presence and hope might fill us for neighbors and friends and siblings ravaged by fear?
Let the same mind be in you that wasin Christ Jesus,
who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.
Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God...
Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for God's good pleasure.
Do all things without murmuring and arguing, so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world. It is by your holding fast to the word of life that I can boast on the day of Christ that I did not run in vain or labour in vain. But even if I am being poured out as a libation over the sacrifice and the offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you— and in the same way you also must be glad and rejoice with me.
