Don Edwards - The Master's Call lyrics

When I was but a young man I was wild and full of fire A youth within my teens but full of challenge and desire I ran away from home and left my mother and my dad I know it grieved them so to think their only boy was bad I fell in with an outlaw band, their names were known quite well How many times we robbed and plundered, I could never tell This kind of sinful livin' leads only to a fall I learned that much and more the night I heard my master call One night we rustled cattle, a thousand head or so And started them out on the trail that leads to Mexico But a norther started blowin' and lightnin' flashed about I thought someone was calling me I thought I heard a shout Then at that moment lightning struck not twenty yards from me And left there was a giant cross where once there was a tree And this time I knew a heard a voice, a voice so sweet and strange A voice that came from everywhere, a voice that called my name So frightened I was thinking of sinful deeds I'd done I failed to see a thousand head of cattle start to run The cattle they stampeded, were running all around My pony ran but stumbled and it threw me to the ground I felt the end was nearing, that d**h would be the price When a mighty bolt of lightning showed the face of Jesus Christ And I cried, "Oh Lord, forgive me, don't let it happen now I want to live for You alone, oh God these words I vow" My wicked past unfolded, I thought of wasted years When another bolt of lightning k**ed a hundred head of steers And the others rushed on by me, and I was left to live The Master had a reason, life is His to take and give A miracle performed that night, I wasn't meant to die The dead ones formed a barricade least 6 or 7 high Right behind it, there was I, afraid but safe and sound I cried and begged for mercy kneeling there upon the ground A pardon I was granted, my sinful soul set free No more to fear the angry waves upon life's stormy sea Forgiven by the love of God, a love that will remain I gave my life and soul the night the Savior called my name