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That Meeting Place

LORD, my Lord in heaven,

I don't know or understand all of the countless mysteries that you own with authority. I don't have the wisdom to successfully navigate all of the difficulties even in my own small sphere of life on my own, while you manage all that is contained within the endless expanse of the heavens with sovereign perfection...

But by your grace, there are these things I do know...

Your goodness, majesty, kindness and glory escape the pursuit of human words to describe their towering volume to measure. You are the awesomely awesome, the immeasurable blessing and the unending joy to all who truly know and trust you...

Your faithfulness to even the lowest unworthy who call on your name in repentant submission is undeterable to respond in selfless and boundless grace.Your explosive, thundering and unlimited power as the God who reigns sovereign, holds gentle enough to tenderly wipe away humble tears...

You are both terrifying and kind, omnipotently sovereign and yet generously gracious. In the fullness of all that you powerfully are, I'm more than amazed and unendingly grateful for all that you willingly choose to be as Holy God to those you created with loving intention...

The wonder of your creativity astounds the beholder and the unmatched height of your wisdom confounds the far lessor, wisest of men you've created. You are without equal, far beyond the glory of any gathering of beings in all that you are - so amazingly beautiful in every facet of character...

I exist infinitely small in the vastness of all that you've created in omnipotent power. But you are immense beyond my mind's ability to conceive as the God who breathes out the stars. I stand weak and without true power or glory of my own - lacking in all that you excel in so richly...

I stand humbly, reminded of my own failures before the standard of your great judgment, penniless before it's price. My own heart speaks accusations against me from my own memory. I know the lie of my former vanity and it's past weight as I stand before your perfection...

 I have no ability of my own to blot out the history of my transgressions and without redemption, I know I would stand convicted. I know who I am alone without divine, merciful convention. I know my true place and where I belong by virtue of what I myself have earned...

But Lord of glory, you stand with me unashamed of my ugliness and unworthiness. moreover without cause, you took the shame that was mine alone to bear and the fate that I rightly earned upon yourself as your own. You bore the punishment I could not carry...

I bow, conquered by your love and surrendered to your greatness. I have placed your foot upon my head in submission to your omnipotent authority and you have raised me up though undeserving, as a prince among many in the court of your kingdom yet to come...

LORD, my Lord, I have no words to equal the depth of my gratitude or to describe the perfect beauty that you are. They're trapped within the swelling confines of my chest, too wonderful to form. How humbled I am when my heart dwells in the place of your mercy...

... that meeting place, where the blood of the divine met the dust of the earth.




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