Crave Better
A driving worship song for older kids and preteens (about ages 9–13), from the album "Love Not This World." It takes the honest hunger of the heart — our cravings, which mirror who we are — and asks God to re-aim them: trade the heart of stone for a heart of flesh, and teach us to crave better. Not by willpower, but by His Spirit.
Verse 1
Search me, O God… and show me my own heart. I am not what I crave, but it mirrors who I am; so let me look, and not look away, heart behind the man — wash me in the blood and in the water of the Word. Let me not forget what I saw… and teach me to crave better, Lord.
Chorus
So teach me to crave better, Lord — make this whole heart new; the water shows the face, and my cravings show I'm untrue; the lie I hunger after only births the chain and shame — so turn my hunger, Father, till it hungers for Your name. I can't re-aim my own desire — ignite in knowledge a Holy Fire — make me crave You, Lord, crave You… I am held in Your hand.
Verse 2
You said You'd take the heart of stone and give a heart of flesh; so write Your law upon it, Lord, and make my wanting fresh; let me hunger, thirst for righteousness, and feast on what is true — the things I starved myself to chase were starving me from You. O taste and see that You are good — the real bread for the feast; the cravings of the world run dry, in You the famine's ceased.
Bridge
For I can't make myself want right — it's You who works in me, to will and want and walk Your way; abide, and set me free; so put to death the old desire, and grow the new instead — make me crave You, only You, Lord… by the Spirit, raise the dead.
Final Chorus
So teach us to crave better, Lord — make the sinner new; turn the hunger, take the shame, till it only hungers for You; we can't re-aim our own desire — ignite in knowledge a Holy Fire — make us crave You, Lord, crave You… we are held in Your hand.
Outro
Teach me to crave You… just loved, just washed, just Yours.


