(C) Cheryl Howard 2008 

 

You think that you are random, your days they have no plan,

You think that you are swallowed in an endless sea of man,

You think that you’re not noticed, not thought about or cared,

Your heart it swallows lies, holds you in the grip of fears.

 

 

You trudge with endless weariness, as day flows into day,

A part of you protests, whispers, “Is there no better way?”

All about you there is emptiness, in the busyness of life,

A paradox you puzzle, when you raise it, leads to strife.

 

 

Voices round you stridently urge, “Keep the status quo,

Follow with the rest of us – though none knows where we go.”

Your questions they unsettle their numb complacency,

Your fellow travellers prefer to walk in blindness, than to see.

 

 

Buried deep within your soul, you sense that there is more,

You know that you are far from whole, but WHO were you formed for?

Eternity is in your heart, you can not its call erase,

For you were formed for GOD, to know, to dwell before HIS Face!

 

 

You feel that chasm, an abyss, that lays between your hearts,

You do not fathom how to breach it, or even where to start.

But HE has made a way for you, and all that was costly HE did do,

HE bridged that distance with HIS Life, HE sacrificed HIMSELF for you.

 

 

HIS bloodied hand now reaches out, dares you to trust HIM,

Let HIM take your blighted soul, your anguish and your sin.

For HE will wash and cleanse you, give you joy, and love and life,

HE will bind you to HIM, as does a man, in love, his wife!

 

 

 

 

thought for the journey…

James 4:6-8 “But HE gives more grace. Therefore HE says: ‘GOD resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.’ Therefore submit to GOD. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to GOD and HE will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands you sinners and purify your hearts you double-minded.”

 

Draw near to ALMIGHTY GOD, and wondrous promise - HE will draw near to you!

Dependance upon HIM - the heart of true humility! Knowing how desperately we need HIM, and not holding back - but running to HIM Alone who can help us, rescue us, set us free from the death-grip of sin, redeem us and give us HIS Life!

Cleanse our hands and purify our hearts - ‘clean hands’ speaks of what we do, and ‘pure hearts’ of who we are within, where The SAVIOR sees and knows all! As we draw near to HIM, as we seek after and welcome HIS Presence, then HE begins to transform us, to change us - we find desire growing in us to be pure in our lives before HIM, and we find enabling in HIS Presence to be transformed into HIS likeness!

 

Philippians 1:6 “being confident of this very thing, that HE who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of JESUS CHRIST.”

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 “Now may The GOD of peace HIMSELF sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our LORD JESUS CHRIST. HE who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”