On the mountain top I cry out for the Lord.
The wind rushes through, the fire burns, the ground shakes, yet still I wait for the whisper in the wind.
Glory You are all around me.
I walk in You and even though I can’t hear Your voice I keep walking towards Your glory.
You give me rest in You, but the world gives me toil for the root of all evil.
The ones I love are crumbling beneath its fist, yet You continue to bless me through all of this.
I don’t know what to do Lord.
I have put stripes on their backs, and the pain I have caused makes me want to give up.
The king of liars throws me in the furnace and I doubt the Son of Man will protect me this time.
Yet your cross still stands to this day.
I look up at it sometimes and I remember Your suffering and pain, and the sin that You conquered that day.
More and more I look at your Cross and remember what Your blood covered, but then I remember what my blood covered hands done have with Your Spirit in me.
I was too weak and too prideful.
I have made my own grave to take rest in.
I pray I won't die here.
I know You are reaching for me Father, but I grasp for You with my eyes closed.
I will pray because sometimes that is all you can do, but I pray because sometimes it is all you need to do.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Refracted doubt
Dusty fields dry and dead
I thirst for you but I continue to go unfed
I try to hear Your voice but I wonder if I want to listen
I want to stop this fight and every time I look into my heart I am sure
I search through the broken thoughts and confused logic of a prideful fool
I feel deprived and the heart of flesh is petrifying back to the dense stone it was before
Blood made me whole and now blood drips from me so I pray Lord I can bleed out this pain
I know You have sanctified me and gave me life but why can’t you give me peace one more time Lord?
The eyes of the hopeful look too me as some the false archetype they cry for perfection and all I can offer is disappointment.
Every burden of the afflicted I tie around my neck, and now they weigh on me like a millstone around my neck and I hear the sea calling my name to just dive in to oblivion on last time.
While sinking to through the dark depths of the endless ocean I wonder why I am letting myself sink.
Light can no longer penetrate through the black I am alone life leaves me death claims me, but I cannot forgot how the light shined.
I thirst for you but I continue to go unfed
I try to hear Your voice but I wonder if I want to listen
I want to stop this fight and every time I look into my heart I am sure
I search through the broken thoughts and confused logic of a prideful fool
I feel deprived and the heart of flesh is petrifying back to the dense stone it was before
Blood made me whole and now blood drips from me so I pray Lord I can bleed out this pain
I know You have sanctified me and gave me life but why can’t you give me peace one more time Lord?
The eyes of the hopeful look too me as some the false archetype they cry for perfection and all I can offer is disappointment.
Every burden of the afflicted I tie around my neck, and now they weigh on me like a millstone around my neck and I hear the sea calling my name to just dive in to oblivion on last time.
While sinking to through the dark depths of the endless ocean I wonder why I am letting myself sink.
Light can no longer penetrate through the black I am alone life leaves me death claims me, but I cannot forgot how the light shined.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
A victory?
Your lies and your pain and your selfish heart are screaming my name; your lust, your vengeance, your hate is roaring at me. My flesh is shaking while my heart begins to drip with the deepest crimson, and I feel alone. You try and take everything I love, your fiendish acts leave me in a daze. With every victory you dart for my throat with such violence I nearly crumble from fear. You leave me deprived you and try and steal my gift for Him.
I feel my muscle tense and my fingernails dig deep into my skin while he tries to consume my will. I look for something to lift me out bed, but I have no strength left inside of me. The wind crashes through and sunders this shadow .The moonlight shines in through all the black and slowly I release my fist. I gaze above and I search in side my heart. My tears are wiped from my eyes and once again hope is all I see only because I can’t forget how much He loves me.
I feel my muscle tense and my fingernails dig deep into my skin while he tries to consume my will. I look for something to lift me out bed, but I have no strength left inside of me. The wind crashes through and sunders this shadow .The moonlight shines in through all the black and slowly I release my fist. I gaze above and I search in side my heart. My tears are wiped from my eyes and once again hope is all I see only because I can’t forget how much He loves me.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Tired
I keep dredging through a valley of black with all your burdens on my back. I never see your face and your voice is far from me. I give you devotion and love, and you give me half hearted response lace with spite and duty. I try and stay faithful to God’s will and you drag me through the mud and expect me to still feel the same? You hold all the answers yet you keep them to yourself.
I don’t need these lies and uncertainty I don’t need you to lift me up or be there for me, but I want you to be there with me. I don’t think you feel the same way. I have been patient for too long now and still you have nothing to offer me? I put you through one night of pain and it tore me apart to know I put you through that, and you put me through months of pain and seem to have no remorse for what you have done.
If you loved me you would listen to God and do as he pleases because I am so tired of this. I raise my arms with heart in hand you can either smash it to pieces or embrace it, but I don’t think I can offer my heart much longer because my arms are getting tired.
I don’t need these lies and uncertainty I don’t need you to lift me up or be there for me, but I want you to be there with me. I don’t think you feel the same way. I have been patient for too long now and still you have nothing to offer me? I put you through one night of pain and it tore me apart to know I put you through that, and you put me through months of pain and seem to have no remorse for what you have done.
If you loved me you would listen to God and do as he pleases because I am so tired of this. I raise my arms with heart in hand you can either smash it to pieces or embrace it, but I don’t think I can offer my heart much longer because my arms are getting tired.
Monday, October 20, 2008
I don't even remember writing this one
I forget who I am at times what I can do what I can say.
I forget that no one really cares about what people have to say people just want hear what they want to hear.
I forget that being honest and telling people the truth doesn’t mean people are going to care about what you have to say.
I forget that people won’t care to know until they know you care.
I forget that I am not perfect or smart.
I forget that people don’t see Jesus Christ’s love in me.
I forget that it doesn’t matter how much you care about someone if they don’t want to talk to you.
I forget that loving people doesn’t matter if you don’t show them that you love them.
I forget that I have lost most of my friends.
I forget that I have to be an example to the rest of the world.
I forget that Jesus Christ died for all of my sins.
I forget that my life is not up to me it is up to God.
I forget that God is always watching over me.
I forget that God always loves me.
But God doesn’t forget!
I forget that no one really cares about what people have to say people just want hear what they want to hear.
I forget that being honest and telling people the truth doesn’t mean people are going to care about what you have to say.
I forget that people won’t care to know until they know you care.
I forget that I am not perfect or smart.
I forget that people don’t see Jesus Christ’s love in me.
I forget that it doesn’t matter how much you care about someone if they don’t want to talk to you.
I forget that loving people doesn’t matter if you don’t show them that you love them.
I forget that I have lost most of my friends.
I forget that I have to be an example to the rest of the world.
I forget that Jesus Christ died for all of my sins.
I forget that my life is not up to me it is up to God.
I forget that God is always watching over me.
I forget that God always loves me.
But God doesn’t forget!
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Old school
Oh God You hear me, oh God You know me, and Oh God You see me. Oh God why do You love me? You see more than what I show the world. You see more than the church knows. You see more than anyone else does. You know my works and my thoughts. You know my malice, You know my hate You know my lust, but You also know my fate.
I heard your call, though because of fear I chose to withdrawal. I feel like I am alone and deep down I know why. The voice of many waters is hard to hear if you choose to close your ear. I have tried to hide my life from you, but still you knew everything I would do.
Even though my heart thirsts for your voice sadly I keep making the wrong choice. My evil deeds keep piling up yet Lord you still offer to fill my cup? How is Your love still there? I keep turning my back to You, and I look back and I see your hand still reaching for me. I throw dirt in your eyes and spit in your face, yet Lord you still offer me Your grace?
I look into my heart Lord You are there, I look out on Your people You are there Lord, I look out on Your Earth You are there Lord, and I look out on Your universe You are there Lord. You are all around me and even reside in the deepest depths of my heart, yet I chose to depart?
On my knees sackcloth on my back and ashes on my head I cry out to God with all the passion and all the strength left in me hoping You will once again draw near to me. I fear my cries will be unheard because I continually chose to ignore Your Word. But You whisper in my ear “son no need to scream I was always near”. No deed is greater than grace; no darkness can hide Your face, never again will I let my love for You leave this place. In the shadow of your wing all there is left to sing is all the glory and honor to Christ my king.
I heard your call, though because of fear I chose to withdrawal. I feel like I am alone and deep down I know why. The voice of many waters is hard to hear if you choose to close your ear. I have tried to hide my life from you, but still you knew everything I would do.
Even though my heart thirsts for your voice sadly I keep making the wrong choice. My evil deeds keep piling up yet Lord you still offer to fill my cup? How is Your love still there? I keep turning my back to You, and I look back and I see your hand still reaching for me. I throw dirt in your eyes and spit in your face, yet Lord you still offer me Your grace?
I look into my heart Lord You are there, I look out on Your people You are there Lord, I look out on Your Earth You are there Lord, and I look out on Your universe You are there Lord. You are all around me and even reside in the deepest depths of my heart, yet I chose to depart?
On my knees sackcloth on my back and ashes on my head I cry out to God with all the passion and all the strength left in me hoping You will once again draw near to me. I fear my cries will be unheard because I continually chose to ignore Your Word. But You whisper in my ear “son no need to scream I was always near”. No deed is greater than grace; no darkness can hide Your face, never again will I let my love for You leave this place. In the shadow of your wing all there is left to sing is all the glory and honor to Christ my king.
Mist
Mist clouds my thoughts. A mist I freely invited in. The mist has turned me around I am not sure if I am going the right way anymore. Hiding in shadows are only what needs to be hidden. Thoughts shrouded and hearts harden playing in the shadows seems so appealing.
Waiting in the dark is doubt. Waiting in the doubt is lies. Waiting in the lies is a wide path. A path that can’t is inviting and holds all that has hidden in the shadows all this time. Children of God cannot hide in the shadows forever.
Through the breach our good Shepherd searches for us. Our Lord looks into our hearts reaches out to us and calls. His voice quiet and still utters simply “Let me carry you out of these shadows”.
Waiting in the dark is doubt. Waiting in the doubt is lies. Waiting in the lies is a wide path. A path that can’t is inviting and holds all that has hidden in the shadows all this time. Children of God cannot hide in the shadows forever.
Through the breach our good Shepherd searches for us. Our Lord looks into our hearts reaches out to us and calls. His voice quiet and still utters simply “Let me carry you out of these shadows”.
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