Dead Reckoning

[Based on Romans 6:11, Galatians 2:20] It's a new day at last, but you're sinking so fast If left up to your head, you'd remember the past But a new day has come and new life has begun Let the old pass away, reconsider it done There's got to be a reckoning When you feel the Spirit beckoning It's a dead reckoning Trade the old for the new It's a dead reckoning Learn to die daily till the new life comes through It's a dead reckoning You've got nothing to lose but you do have to choose When the Spirit says yes but the flesh will refuse And although you feel odd there are many who trod Till they're dead to the world but alive unto God Some still believe it can't be done To the steady the race is still won And the battle is already through And it's hard to believe but it's true On a hill long ago where the blood runs below Died a King, two thieves, and you