(C) Cheryl Howard 2008
I belong to YOU BELOVED, I am held in YOUR embrace
It is YOU who lights my dark, keeps me longing for YOUR face
How beautiful it is, to know that I am YOURS
And that there is no other, for tis YOUR heart mine adores
In the place of deep despair, I find BELOVED, YOU are there
And when the water rises high, YOU lift me higher in YOUR care
At the bottom of the pit, YOU wrap me in YOUR Love
With a roar of victory, YOU set me by YOUR side above!
YOUR comfort tis unparalleled, YOU don’t just wish, but do me well
For tis only YOU that can redeem, all that we lost when in sin we fell
So no matter how obscure my view, as the road I walk leads home to YOU
I know that never do I tread alone; tis YOUR hand holds me, and brings me through!
thought for the journey …
Belonging!
What heart does not secretly yearn for this - to belong, somewhere, to someone? It is hardwired into our innermost being - this desire to be wanted, needed, valued and cherished. We were created to belong - to our CREATOR! We need HIM and HE yearns for us!
What privilege, what joy, what wonder to belong to The KING of Kings and The LORD of Lords. This life is so brief in its duration, before we know it, twill be over and we will stand before this Great GOD to whom we belong (if we have yielded our lives to The SON of GOD at the foot of HIS Cross and received HIS forgiveness for our wretched rebellion) - let’s make it count for HIS glory, let’s make it a life that brings HIS heart joy and pleasure. Let’s make it a life that out of devotion to our SAVIOR, is sown in loving and serving others, in sharing the hope that we have in CHRIST, in sharing HIS loving-kindness and goodness, in sharing the Truth - JESUS!
1 Peter 1:17-19 “And if you call on The FATHER, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of CHRIST, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot.”
We do belong - to ALMIGHTY GOD!
Our lives have purpose, significance, meaning; to HIM, for HIM and in HIM. So let’s live our lives for the glory of HIS Matchless NAME! The NAME that is above every other name!
James 4:13-15 “Come now you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit’; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, ‘If The LORD wills, we shall live and do this or that.’”
1 Peter 1:22-25 “Since you have purified your souls in obeying The Truth through The SPIRIT in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through The Word of GOD which lives and abides forever, because ‘All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers and its flower falls away, but The word of The LORD endures forever.’”
Let us give to HIM our absolute devotion, for truly does HE deserve it; and let us serve HIm out of our debt of gratitude for HIS grace, a debt we could never repay. And let us not forget that The GOD we serve and are enslaved to with bonds of love owns the fields we labor in - they all belong to HIM - and the treasures we unearth as we plow and dig are HIS. They are not ours by this world’s axiom of finders keepers - and we must take each precious gem we find and lay them in adoration and servitude at the feet of our Holy GOD. HE lets us share in their beauty, and show them in wonder to others - but they always were, and always will be, HIS treasures!
