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I Am Consumed


Lord, the eyes of my heart are consumed by the beauty of your character. Your matchless grace, your kindness Lord and your unfathomable love are the among the many life giving treasures I seek in your presence. Your peace, your purity and honesty renew me. Your goodness, your wise and just ways are the life path I seek to follow with passion. Lord, your love alone sustains me for you stand alone as the source of my provision. In truth, I am wholly dependent on you for all things as an infant is dependent on its mother.

Your compassion to the weak, the lonely, the forsaken and unworthy is the example of loving tenderness my heart craves to follow. For the indescribable glory and beauty of your heart is resoundingly proclaimed in the humility of your great and immeasurable majesty and power as the God to reach out to love the unlovable. Oh Lord God, there is no justice in the words of men to describe you!


You are indeed the beginning and the end of all things holy and good. You're the source and the well spring of all that men's hearts truly desire in raw need and bare honesty. There is no substance to any other thing sought to fill the unquenchable desire for you. You alone are the source of the bounty of true wealth that your spirit brings and that even unknowing hearts seek in desperation.


Lord God you are life in its purest perfection. You are the essence of all things truly desired and the substance of all things righteous, good and eternal that men could ever hope to enjoy. There is no replacement and no substitution for all that you are and all that your generosity chooses to share with the undeserving. None are worthy Lord, except by your grace.


To walk in your presence Lord, guided and held firmly by the hand of the almighty Lord God Himself is the ultimate dream of desire that any man could ever hope to imagine in the fancy of slumber. Yet, it's not a dream of desire, but the reality you offer to any who will accept in wakeful sincerity. Oh Lord God who is, your beauty is indescribable, yet I will spend the days of my eternity in endless search of its description only to bestow just honor upon your glorious heart. Lord God, you stand above all other things as the passion that consumes me!

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