Please take time and read this slowly.
A Story Of A Life
When I try to think about how
great God is
I am drawn to think about what
is made
about the heavens and the
fields and the streams
the flowers, the clouds, the
sun and shade
Psalms 8:3-4
3. When
I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which
thou hast ordained;
4. What
is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest
him?
I think about koala
bears and bumble bees
bengal cats, a
peacocks flume and bonsai trees
Just one look at
where I live and I quickly see
the ocean with all
its wonders, were made for me
I see the calm, the
storm, the darkness and the light
all made for me for
day and night
Not one thing
missing for all to complete their tasks
And for each of
them to work again I need not even ask
Matthew 5:45
for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and
on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
I think about the
things I cannot see, like love
and breath,
eternity
The intrinsic
things that bring me hope, that make me cry
things I save just
to capture sentimental value, things you cannot buy
I think about my
friends and family and all the things God did for me
I think about the
many days God paid my debt and many ways
How God would
substitute Himself, even when I was wrong
So I could have a
chance at life to find my way along
Philippians 2:12-13
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always
obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out
your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to
will and to do of His good pleasure.
When I think deep I
have to thank God for all that God has let me see
For eyes that can
see beyond what I have done with me
For God has made a
work of art that I have feigned, a work of man
God put His best in
me and I a lessor plan
God filled my life
with paid for treasures
As I collected
worthless trinkets
Piling one upon
another like a junkyard piles worthless cars
That's what happens to a man when he can't see real far
Matthew 6:21
21. For where your treasure is, there will your
heart be also.
I can't help but be in awe, that God consents to let me think, on Christ, the very Son of God
And just as
profound is when God listens to my wails
when truly me is
what is most on my mind,
God=s mercy never fails
1 Chronicles 16:34
34. O give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good;
for His mercy endureth for ever.
And God allows me
entrance in a holy place where angels dare
the place where
nothing lasts that God did not bring there
That I should then
endure to live having tasted holy ground
and live a lessor
way of life than this life I have found
Exodus 3:5
5. And
he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the
place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
And found I did
what was not lost, not of my own
But at His cost
Because of what God
did for me
That's not why God made the tree
But we have not
been faithful with
the little that we
have
More oft than not,
we fall short in our walk
And forget where we've been even when it's not dark
We openly search
for what we think we deserve
for our current
self and not eternity's best
When what we find
and amass, overall does not last
And we leave
unopened our real treasure chest
For we have not
found truth to have present worth
As we have money
and things we strive for hard
For we think we are
better for the toil
And more worthy if
we're marred
That way when
things don't go right
We can blame God
for not giving to us
What we think we
should have, saying quite ungraciously
Why hast thou made
me thus?
Romans 9:20
20. Nay
but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say
to Him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
When I try to think
of how great God is
I have an enemy
that dances and sings
And does all kinds
of things to distract me for a season
And I have been
fooled before, when what I thought I saw
would be good for
me, I know now was just an illusion
But at every turn
when I turn toward God's place
The enemy still
supplies confusion
James 3:16 For where envying and strife is, there is
confusion and every evil work.
I thought that once
I had found my place in the heavenlies
I could rest for a
while
But I find I still
seek refuge in the things of the world
And I find that
they are still filled with guile
1 John 2:15
15.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man
love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
There must be an
answer that I can understand clearly
As to how to be
here and at the same time be there-ly
For certain I've found that without God to assist me
I stand no chance
at all but to be utterly bliss-ly
I have found a
place where the words are not empty
Where there's power just in the hearing me thinking
Because the source
of these thoughts are not mine at all
And neither do they
mimic the fall
The Word of God has
resonated a wave
that changes the
way this man does behave
And yet the way I
behave falls far short of the Word
God pardons me just
because I have heard
Oh how I would like
to write a song that when sung
Men and women would
repent of the evil they've done
But to write such a
song in itself shows how vain
We've become when we seek promulgating our own name
When we could
settle all disputes with a word
Telling others
about the One we have heard
And not telling
them as if we had to explain
But speaking as one
called to proclaim
Mark 16:15
15. And
he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every
creature.
In the depth of God's mines
I am spending my
time
and I'm sensing a spiritual pull
I've decided to dig deep for new gems
That I have learned
come only from Him
until my bag is
full
Not so that I can
be rich for myself
But so I'll have something to give
For what I can do
with my own mind's mine
is not enough to go
around
But even the
smallest facet from God is enough to buy
holy ground
Matthew 13:45-46
45. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a
merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
46.
Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that
he had, and bought it.
In the past I
planted seeds of faith
not giving much
heed to the soil
thinking that good
crops came about
equivalent to man's toil
But toil and sweat
doesn't grow healthy fruit
The soil must be
watered and nurtured by God
For I have planted
many seeds
and I have
harvested many weeds
When I try to think
how great God is
I think about how
God first called out my name
That before I was
born and before I said yes
God had already
paid for my shame
1 Corinthians 6:20
20. For
ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God's.
There's too many things that contend for my time
As I pass quickly
through this life - There's something
fresh on my mind
That I should look
to please God daily
And not live my
life sparingly
Thank God for the
moments when I get to see me as I am
A son of God -
joint heir with Christ and not just a man
One who was chosen
to spend life with God
I shall never again
give sin a light nod
I shall stand firm
and resolved to bring God in my life
In my family, my
home and business alike
I shall make sure
my calling to find why I am
By listening
carefully to God in my inner man
Ephesians 3:14-16
14. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15. Of
whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16.
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be
strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
I shall pray for
myself and pray for my friends
I shall look to the
God who consistently brings
Good things from
above as the Father of lights
Who has already
paved a way for our flight
Don't think I'm not pulled from my calling each day
There's hardly a moment when I'm not tested by my
nature giving in to a lessor way
But I've decided to say yes when the Spirit calls out
I've decided to practice faith, not doubt
I've decided to read the Word and believe and believe
and believe until
my believing receives
And I've decided to receive what was made just for me
That's why I must listen to the Spirit, you see
So why would I try
to convince another
Of the experience I
have found that took too much time
Because I don't want to see my brother
Leave as many
valuable years behind
I don't want to waste another minute of life
Where I am not
attentive to God's voice
And as I share with
others what has happened inside
I share my final
choice
See I don't want to go through more of the same
More years of
gathering in crops that are ruined
More years of being
just a little late
More years of
saying I wish I had done it differently
More years of
sowing sparingly
More years of doing
nothing daringly
Counting down as
life loses its luster
Trudging through
life as if walking through quicksand
I found out there's a better plan
The words that I
speak can hardly express today's mission
Of proclaiming how your life started with
vision
A vision God had
when He called out your name
That vision God
had/has, has not changed
When God made the
earth and all that is in it
He thought about
you and what you could do with it
God knew about your
days of sadness and pain
And God knew of the
blessings that would come your way
God saw down the
road a piece and made you a path
That as hard as it
seemed it was, is not full of His wrath
For what God
foresaw, when He foresaw you ahead
He saw that at one
point He would stand in your stead
Because God saw
when you and I would turn from His ways
And God could have
rightly cast us away
But not like you
and I, God's forgiveness is better
When God forgives,
He forgives forever
Psalms 103:12
12. As
far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions
from us.
We can't go back and fix our past
God doesn't want that from us
That's why when God forsook His own Son
It was to cover up
what you and I have done
But today and
tomorrow we have a chance to redeem
And to live out our
life it as it was made - God breathed
To reflect our
origin having been born again
To live out
tomorrow above the auspices of sin
Romans 8:15
15. For
ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received
the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Never again accept
second best for your soul
When all that God
made is available and free
God doesn't want His children to live like the world
God wants us to
live out our life with decree
Take heed to these
words and follow the wise
To decide to make
today the day we decide
That without
reservation we will give God our best
And put a stop to
putting God to the test
I was thinking,
what words could I say
That could bring
you and I to a place we could stay
A staying place
where there's power
A staying place
where there's power for more than an hour
So I leave you with
this word to ponder
Your hopes and your
dreams are considered each day
By a God that knows
how to bring them your way
And there's no better day to get started than now
to trust in the
Lord - and let the Lord show you how
1 Timothy 3:16
16. And
without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the
flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles,
believed on in the world, received up into glory.
