(C) Cheryl Howard

O Glorious GOD, YOU make my heart to melt,

So much love and gratitude, to YOU has my soul felt.

In my bones for YOU burns a raging fire,

It is YOU above all others I desire.

 

 

Without the breath of GOD upon my days,

This world is but a barren land, desolate its ways,

A lonely, howling wilderness,

A bottomless, yawning, dark abyss.

 

 

One smile from YOUR Light-filled eyes,

And my heart soars, in bliss it sighs.

To bring YOU joy, delight YOUR soul,

Is my purpose, pleasure and goal.

 

 

Nearer to my heart than kin,

Beloved SAVIOR who atoned my sin.

Dearer to me, than my life’s breath,

Without YOUR Presence I am lost, bereft.

 

 

As each day draws unto its end,

To YOU my heart in praise I send,

And as the dawn awakens me,

It is YOUR face I yearn to see.

 

 

 

thought for the journey …

We were created for GOD - to know HIm, to be loved by HIM; and to love HIM in return.

We spend our lives searching for meaning, for significance - for love, and yet so heartbreakingly often we miss the ’secret’ of life, the purpose of living - GOD our SAVIOR! It is not that HE hides this truth from us - it is we who so readily self deceive, who chase after so many poor substitutes, who bullishly refuse to face the truth. We try so desperately to find answers ourselves, outside of The ANSWER - and wonder why we feel hollow, empty; knowing deep inside that something is missing - SOMEONE is missing, The SON of GOD, our Redeemer!

 

Isaiah 44:2a ”Thus says The LORD who made you and formed you from the womb, who will help you …”

Psalm 139:15-18 “My frame was not hidden from YOU, when I was made in secret, & skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. YOUR eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in YOUR book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. How precious also are YOUR thoughts to me O GOD! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with YOU.”

 

We may think we don’t need GOD - O how foolish and destructive is that false thought! HE is Love, Life, Light, Truth, Hope, Peace, Goodness, Joy …. to be separated from HIM is to be cut off from the Source of all these things - things we can’t truly ‘live’ without. We need HIM more than the air we breathe, the food and water we consume, the companionship of one another - what blessings we do enjoy are simply the overflow of HIS Presence upon this earth.

Draw near to CHRIST and we will discover the fullness of true life - the joy of HIS PRESENCE! 

Psalm 16:11 “YOU will show me the path of Life; in YOUR Presence is fullness of joy; at YOUR right hand are pleasures forevermore!”