Fountainview Academy - Write Them On My Heart Lyrics
Lyrics
You've written what You want from me in stone
A refection of Your character alone
So I try to keep Your laws without regret
But I'm easily distracted and forget
So write them on my heart
Seal them in my mind
The beauty of Your law and grace combined
Remind me just how lovely Your commandments are
And write them on the tablet of my heart
There ‘s only one desire inside of me
It's to be everything You created me to be
And I know the only way that I can grow
It's for You to come inside and take control
So write them on my heart
Seal them in my mind
The beauty of Your law and grace combined
Remind me just how lovely Your commandments are
And write them on the tablets of my heart
Your law reflects Your goodness
The cross reveals Your grace
Love is the motivation behind your perfect ways
So write them on my heart
Seal them in my mind
The beauty of Your law and grace combined
Remind me just how lovely Your commandments are
And write them on the tablets of my heart
So write them on my heart
Engrave them in my mind
The beauty of Your law and grace combined
Remind me just how lovely Your commandments are
And write them on the tablets of my heart
Remind me just how lovely Your commandments are
And write them on the tablets of my heart.
Video
Write Them on My Heart | God so Loved the World | Fountainview Academy
Meaning & Inspiration
When I think about the earnest prayers coming out of Fountainview Academy, I think about the honest struggle every believer knows. Their track Write Them On My Heart, which arrived in May of 2013 on the album God so Loved the World - Fall, cuts straight to the reality of the human condition. We are people who have seen God’s requirements—those commands etched in stone—and we want to keep them, but we fail. We get distracted. We lose our way. The theology here isn't about working our way into heaven; it is about recognizing that our own willpower is flimsy at best. When the song asks God to write His law on the tablets of our hearts, it is pulling directly from the promise of the New Covenant in Jeremiah 31:33, where God says He will put His law within His people and write it on their hearts. This is the shift from cold, external obligation to internal, living transformation.
The lyrics admit a hard truth: trying to keep the law without the Holy Spirit is a recipe for burnout. The song hits on something vital when it highlights that the cross reveals grace while the law reflects God’s goodness. These two aren't enemies. They work together. Romans 7:12 tells us the law is holy, righteous, and good, but it takes the grace found at Calvary to make that law something we actually want to obey. By asking God to "take control," the song acknowledges that true holiness is not about us being better people; it is about Christ living in us, just as Paul describes in Galatians 2:20. When we stop trying to muscle through our faith and start letting Him engrave His character into our inner being, obedience stops being a burden and becomes a natural overflow of love. This is the difference between a checklist of duties and a life that is truly surrendered. If the law is just a list of rules you read on a page, you will eventually drift, but if it is written on your heart by the hand of the Creator, you are anchored in something that no distraction can wash away.