Untitled Praise

Hear my heart for you, The One God who is holy! Hear my cries for your greater presence. Come near and hear the declarations of my heart for my greatest love. For it is you who satisfies my greatest longing and you for whom my heart yearns. I burn with the anticipation of your presence and pace in anguish when you are not near.

You give songs of joy for my tearful mourning and it's you who trades life for my imminent death. You bring great songs of joy to my heart by your generocity and tears of deep gratitude for your grace. Your mercy is beyond comprehension and your love beyond full knowledge of men. Your righteous ways bring unending joy and your peace brings calm in the greatest storm. I stand in the faithfullness of your promises and my heart swells with praises for the unshakeable future of your word.

Without you I stood worthless and void and life was not in me. But your spirit like the sun rising on the mornings horizon comes to shed warmth and light giving life to my soul. Your wisdom gives direction to my way and your understanding the will to follow. I joy in the whisper from your lips, your every word my treasure to follow. I stand before you without worthiness save by your grace. I am the dead resurrected, the condemned rewarded with life. I am the hopelessy indebted granted the riches of heaven in return for the heaviness of my burden.

You are the One God! You are the spirit of all that is truly good! Your very presence is my greatest blessing and your righteousness and mercy are my salvation and joy. Your hand brings my every provision, your strength is my defense. Those who mockingly threaten and and seek my intimidation don't know the source of my protection. Those who foretell my disgrace know not who lifts me up. Those who declare my shame know not who declares me righteous and those who forecast my disaster know not who writes the path of my future. I will not joy in their destruction, but bow humbly before my God, for I have no strength in my own being. The God of my creation stands with me, it is He who bears me up.

My life hangs on your every word, so my ears strain for the sound your voice. Your voice is the power that created all that I know. The stars and other heavenly bodies hold their place by your command and all the powers of creation from the smallest to the mightiest follow the authority of your voice. You alone have authority over all things. From the greatest to the least, all things answer to you. You alone have authority over my life and you alone write the story of my days. You alone have the power of life and death over me and I bow in deep reverence, abased and completely humbled before your great power and heart. You could have abandoned me and none could accuse you. You could cast me down and none could righteously blame you. You could send misery and deep agony to be my constant companion and I would be so deserving. But you chose instead to love me in my weakness, to joy in my surrender and ran to mend my well earned brokenness.

You could have rightly destroyed me. But instead, you have declared your love for me and hidden me in the robes of your own righteousness. My gratitude can never be quenched my Lord. My love for you runs faster than the cheetah to your heart and lies deeper than the deepst chasm. Whatever my hands and feet may do, whatever my mouth may speak, I pray let them bless you in great measure. I pray fearfully Lord, lest I ever fail you, let my heart always be forever faithfull to your every desire. Great and awesome Lord who has suffered much at the hands of those He's chosen to love, I alone cannot remove your terrible pain of rejection. But I pray Lord that my small and insignificant life can somehow bless richly the greatest heart that any can know and make you truly glad for your labor to create me. For you are great above all things and the undying greatest love of my humbled heart. Let my heart sing for you sweet songs of unending praise and listen I pray to my humble but true offering of love, for you are so much more than worthy.