Have You Ever Been On A Fence
Just Wondering What To Do?
On One Side Lies Your Past
On The Other All That's New.
On The New Side Lies Uncertainty
And Things You Just Don't Know.
The Other Feels So Familiar
The Safer Place To Go.
The Security Of What You've Known
Calls You Back Again.
It's So Easy To Forget Why You Left
The Places That You've Been.
Are You Scared To Take A Step
Outside Your Comfort Zone?
Is Going Back A Guarantee
That You Won't Still Be Alone?
While You're Still Up On That Fence
Ask Some Questions From Within.
Am I Worth All I Want
Or Just What Life Has Been?
Am I Willing To Compromise
My Freedom And My Friends?
And If So Can I Keep Giving In
To Demands That Never End?
Do I Have My Freedom?
Am I All That I Can Be?
Is This Past Of Mine
Not All, Just Part Of Me?
Am I Really Happy?
Do I Feel Complete?
Is Security Victory
Or Is Compromise Defeat?
Does My Future Hold A Chance
To Be All I Can Be?
To Share Who I Really Am
To Be Happy And To Be Free?
Realize Your Future's Yours.
The Choice Is Yours To Make.
Ask All You Want From Life.
It's There For You To Take.
When You Face The New Side Of Things
There Will Be Risks To Take.
But Realize Your Worth Those Risks
It's Your Future That's At Stake.
You Are Worth All You Want.
It's Time To Ask Yourself Again.
Do I Want A Promise For The Future
Or To Revisit Where I've Been?
It’s true that when I wrote these words
I was sittin’ on a fence.
I thought I could change on my own
And then life would all make sense.
I was sure that I was good
And when God looked down at me,
My good nature and kind heart
Are the things that he would see.
What I didn’t realize
Is that sin was in my heart,
All I knew was that I was lost
And I needed a new start.
I tried to make the changes
That would help improve my life.
But I still felt lost and lonely,
I prayed for God to bring my wife.
I had been living a lost life
Since I was in my youth.
And through all my highs and lows
I was searching for the truth.
I wound up on the fence
Searching for peace and love
I didn’t know the darkness of my sin
Blocked the light from God above.
It took another ten years
From when I wrote this poem
For Jesus, The Son of God
To finally call me home.
It wasn’t Jesus that couldn’t find me
It was my life that kept him out.
All the changes I needed to make
Created fear and doubt.
The more God helped me see,
The more I looked and prayed
Then as I began to let things go
I started to be more afraid.
I had fear of letting go
Of my worldly security.
That’s when I met God’s son
And he began a work in me.
As I sought out his Son
And claimed him as my Savior
God smiled down on me
And Blessed me with his favor.
He brought me the desires of my heart
In the person of my wife.
He let me know that in return
He wanted control over my life.
One morning from a sound sleep
God sat me up in bed.
The message he gave to me
Is forever in my head.
If you want the things of my Kingdom
There’s something you must do.
Release the things of the world
And let Jesus reside in you.
I was finally off the fence
And headed in God’s direction.
Where once I had fear and doubt
Now I long for God’s correction.
So Invite Jesus into your heart
And decide to die to sin.
Jesus will always love you
No matter who you’ve been.
It’s time to hop down off that fence
And get your life on track.
Cast out the fear and doubt
There’s no need to look back.
You can’t just call out his name
You must make Jesus your master
If you try to serve both God and man
You’re headed for disaster.
Live his Word and spread the news
That Jesus is the Way.
The Kingdom of Heaven
On your final judgment day.
By William C. Scheel II
(Bill) (Shale)
First Part: March 27, 1990
April 25, 2011
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