You Great Dividing Line, you stand so strong
Between two priorities of my life:
Do I up my GPA and succeed in academics
Or do I find myself in Christ?

Because all I’ve ever known is to seek Him first;
To draw closer to God.
But how can I do so if I spend all my time
Studying all night long?

You Great Dividing Line, you don’t even realize
How much you are tearing me apart.
You separate the two ambitions
I thirst with all my heart.

Do I put down my passions and everything I love
And decide to pick up the textbooks?
Or give up on my studies and set aside school
In return for peoples’ disappointed looks?

These sleepless nights, these unending assignments
I can no longer feel my hand.
Looking into the mirror each morning,
I barely have the strength to stand.

Wasting my days buried in books,
Papers scattered across my bed.
The next weeks come and I move on
And forget what those papers even said.

People used to tell me that high school was great;
It was adventurous, exciting and fun.
Were they joking around or being sarcastic?
I just can’t wait ‘til I’m done.

These empty days, my overloaded planner
Fill me with apathy and sorrow.
I look to the Bible on my bedside table and think,
“Sorry, God… Maybe tomorrow…”

By now my walk with God should have
An incline or a slope,
A transformation of my heart and mind,
An increase of my hope.

I want Him to lead me beside still waters
In the valley of the shadow of death.
But with all these burdens dragging me down,
I can’t even get up to receive my rest.

Nothing should ever come before God.
But school?—It’s not like I want this.
But my elders, their only concern is my grades
And God commands us to honor our parents.

School has cut me from what makes me ME,
Stripped my life of spirit
“You can do anything with a good education!”
Honestly, I don’t want to hear it.

I can do all things through Christ, my strength.
That’s what the Bible says.
So should I listen to God or to my elders?
To my heart or to my head?

I can only choose one to have all my time.
Unfortunately, that’s how it must work.
I can spend it growing closer to God
Or waste it all, buried in books.

I’m not going to be in this world for eternity.
My grades won’t get me into heaven.
School won’t guarantee a brighter future.
It won’t grant wishes at 11:11.

Shouldn’t I dedicate everything to God?
After all, He gave me this life.
But deciding between school and God is
Deciding between what is mandatory and what is right.

You Great Dividing Line, you don’t even realize
How much you are tearing me apart.
You separate the two ambitions
I thirst with all my heart.

You Great Dividing Line, you stand so strong
Between two priorities of my life:
Do I up my GPA and succeed in academics
Or do I find myself in Christ?