Get Right to Do Right

Get Right to Do Right

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Get Right to Do Right
[Verse 1]
Back in 2007 on a garage floor,
Three hundred seventy-eight pounds, couldn't run anymore.
Meth, alcohol, weed, cigarettes and food—
Different names on the chains, but the pattern stayed true.
Food was my first addiction; the names changed down the line,
I kept trying to fix the outside while I was dying inside.
Then I finally surrendered what I couldn't make right—
And Jesus met me there and started changing my life.
[Pre-Chorus]
I learned I couldn't trust every thought in my head,
Couldn't keep following wherever my feelings led.
So before I move, before I fight—
Lord, get my mind right so I can do right.
[Chorus]
Get right to do right,
Sober-minded, eyes on Christ.
Check the mirrors, read the gauges,
Don't let feelings drive my life.
I don't get right to earn Your love,
The blood You shed was already enough.
You made me Yours; now teach me every day
To take the next right step Your way.
Get right to do right.
[Verse 2]
I dropped a hundred fifty pounds, but the mirror didn't change;
I could lose what I carried and still think the same.
That's when I learned an old pattern doesn't die
Just because the outside finally looks all right.
I spent years behind a windshield pulling doubles through the night,
Watching mirrors, checking gauges, keeping eighteen wheels upright.
And You showed me what I did before I ever let that truck roll
Was exactly what I needed to start doing with my soul.
[Pre-Chorus]
Check the load, check the road, know what's happening inside.
Catch it early, make the correction before trouble multiplies.
Before I move, before I fight—
Get me sober-minded, Lord, and get my thinking right.
[Chorus]
Get right to do right,
Sober-minded, eyes on Christ.
Check the mirrors, read the gauges,
Don't let feelings drive my life.
I don't get right to earn Your love,
The blood You shed was already enough.
You made me Yours; now teach me every day
To take the next right step Your way.
Get right to do right.
[Verse 3]
I've learned anger can take the wheel if I hand it the keys,
Fear can make a mountain out of something I can't see.
Pride will tell me I'm right before I've even heard the truth,
And an old pattern always knows the road it wants me to choose.
So I slow it down, separate the feeling from the fact,
Own what's mine, stay in my lane, and don't keep looking back.
What can I control? What do I need to release?
What does God's Word say when my emotions disagree?
[Pre-Chorus]
I don't need another excuse dressed up to look right.
I need truth when it hurts and Your Word for my sight.
Take every thought and bring it under Christ—
Get my mind right so I can do right.
[Chorus]
Get right to do right,
Sober-minded, eyes on Christ.
Check the mirrors, read the gauges,
Don't let feelings drive my life.
I don't get right to earn Your love,
The blood You shed was already enough.
You made me Yours; now teach me every day
To take the next right step Your way.
Get right to do right.
[Bridge]
A garage floor didn't save me.
Losing weight didn't save me.
Quitting drugs didn't buy me grace.
Driving straight didn't save me.
Writing books couldn't save me.
No system ever took Your place.
Only Jesus.
Only Jesus.
Crucified and risen again.
You took the man I couldn't fix
And made me new from within.
GRDR is not my Savior.
It's the gauge that helps me see.
Your Word is still the plumb line.
Your Spirit has to lead.
I don't get right so You will love me.
I get right because You do.
The cross already settled
What I never could undo.
[Breakdown]
When I'm tired after a fourteen-hour day,
When pressure makes the old reactions wake,
When somebody hurts me and I want to strike,
When fear starts talking louder than what's right—
Pause.
What's the goal?
What's the truth?
What belongs to me to do?
What am I feeling?
What do I know?
Lord, which way do You say go?
Then take the next right action.
[Final Chorus]
Get right to do right,
Sober-minded, eyes on Christ.
I've been down enough wrong roads
To know I need Your light.
I don't get right to earn Your love,
Calvary already said enough.
You pulled me off that garage floor
And You haven't left me yet.
Get right to do right,
Grace behind me, truth in sight.
Check the mirrors, read the gauges,
Catch the drift and make it right.
Own my part, stay in my lane,
Don't let yesterday drive today.
One next right action at a time—
Get right to do right.
[Outro]
I was almost four hundred pounds
with a life I couldn't control.
Addiction changed its name,
but the pattern stayed the same.
Then Jesus changed the man.
So now I check the mirrors.
I read the gauges.
I take my thoughts captive.
I stay sober-minded.
Not to earn the cross.
Because of the cross.
One thought.
One choice.
One next right action at a time.
Get right.
Do right.
For the One who made me right.