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My Heart's Cry

Lord my past failures and short comings haunt
my heart, though I know that you have been
faithful to forgive them as you have promised

Their distance from your memory cannot be
measured as you have cast them from you and
you choose to see me as though I never sinned

But I pray my Lord, let me not forget them, for
though their memory grieves my conscience, they
remind me of the man that I am without you

They break my heart and keep it forever humbled
before you as I remember the sacrifice you made for
me though you knew of my sin even before my birth

As your spirit travails within my heart to constantly
give new birth to the man your heart desires me to be,
I pray my Lord to be forever changed by it each day

It is my hearts desire every day, that I will not be
tomorrow the man I was today, but instead one drawn
ever nearer to your heart and changed by your mercy

To more steadfastly walk in the footprints you left
to mark my path, without wavering, and to share
more faithfully the heart that captivates my own

To live this life that you have purchased with your
own divine blood, free of self, desiring only to fulfill
your holy desire in the time that you have given

To be a faithful servant to the Master of the universe
and of my heart in total surrender to whatever
you would ask and to go wherever you lead me

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