1:01 in the morning, and there's something that needs to be said.
For some reason I sit here writing instead of snoozing in my bed.
One thing I've learned recently is to not let time pass me by.
To do good while I have opportunity- to do what is best and I know to be right.
Sometimes that means just being kind to the people all around.
Sometimes it means to look up at the sky when my heart feels on the ground.
Sometimes it means to talk to God and confess that I've done what is wrong.
Daily it means to seek the Lord with all my heart, my mind, and soul.
To serve the Lord and to follow Him devotedly, I desire to completely desire.
Not partially, or just with words, but actively and with a heart to serve.
What does the Lord require of me but to seek Him and obey His Word?
This I can't do in my own strength, but through His power and His alone.
Oh God, My God, how great You are! Nothing will I love more!
You be by all, the Lord of my life, and the comforter of my soul.
You are so good to your people, and we are loved by your grace...
a love we could never have earned.
Poetry is not my goal, although the flowing rhythm of thoughts when they rhyme certainly cannot hurt. :-)
I want to sing to God. I want to glorify His Name.
I want to be diligent in my daily life... I want to never be the same.
To become closer and closer to the image of Christ....
Though I stumble Lord, don't let me fall.
You search the hearts of the people you made, may your Holy Spirit sweep all the dirt away.
Don't let anything in my heart that displeases You be allowed to stay... sweep it all away.
Change anything Lord, make my heart to be clean. Renew a steadfast spirit in me.
You redeemed me Lord, through Jesus.... may I love Him, and please make me like He is.
Humble. Faithful. Zealous for God's house. Serving His created, and emptying Himself.
Obedient to the point of death-even death on a cross. To fulfill God's will to save the lost.
How could He do this? How could He place Himself last?
How could He endure such atrocious pain... such hatred from those He came to save?
He is God, and He is love, and He is our Savior Whose Name is above every name...
At the Name of Jesus every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord.
Fully God, and fully man. Sinless, and he became our sin.
He died our death that we may live... conquering hell, He rose again!
What is most important to me? What is most important to us?
Looking at my priorities shown in my actions vs. the desires of my heart,
Good intentions often take a back seat in life... always diligent, I am not.
As the apostle Paul wrote in Romans 7... I see this distinction, and it isn't so hot. :-)
But I want to do good while I have the opportunity. I want to be generous and ready to share.
I want to serve the Lord with gladness, and follow Him anywhere.
I don't want to chicken out... I must be bold to stand for the gospel I believe.
But through God's strength... and only God's blessing... for Him could I succeed.
I want my country to turn back to the Lord.... to be His people... to love His Word.
Yes, the Lord has a faithful few.... a remnant of His people.... a remnant in this generation who love the truth...who seek justice, and love mercy... who are righteous and hate all that is evil.
When we sin, oh! we grieve, we repent & plead the Blood...through God's grace we're made clean. For these dear brothers & sisters I am thankful- so thankful- but church we must earnestly pray.
America! America! Why did you turn away? Why did we as a people reject God in this way?
There is so much anger, so much sin, we twist right and wrong without any shame.
How can we have been wicked in this way? Oh America! Turn back to the Lord and be saved!
Once again be a nation who's God is the Lord. Once again let our hearts be changed into good.
Oh God! Forgive us.... we've killed, we've profaned, we've immorally switched genders every which way. We've slept out of wedlock, we've laughed at Your Way. We've killed our children. We have killed our children! We have killed our babies before we ever saw their face.... and our nation thinks life is normal this way!
Oh God! Have mercy, please do not delay. I ask for my country to turn from these ways.
We were a country that honored Your Name, we wanted to worship and serve you all our days.
Just as in the Old Testament there was a time when Israel turned away....
your chosen people forsook You and forgot all You had redeemed them from.
They turned to worship idols.... they wickedly did wrong.
But.... you called them back. You brought them back. You welcomed them back, although they were unfaithful. You called them to repent, and when they did, You forgave them. You showed Your grace.... and once again Israel served the Lord God Almighty. God's chosen people walked in a manner worthy of their calling... God's chosen people were reunited with their God in peace.
Just as Israel had its seasons of wickedness in ancient past, we have turned away and forsaken You. Have mercy.... call us... bring us back... forgive us... change us... make us a people who wholeheartedly love You and serve You and follow You. That in this generation America would unite: One Nation Under God
