For the awe that would make it all more clear.
Not religion or rules
But
The humbling that it is impossible without Him.
The freedom.
The clarity.
To lay the sacrifice on the alter morning and night.
To see it before my eyes and know it is real.
To say the words written long ago.
To walk a clear path.
To fall in the presence of God
In awe
Because
Who are we that God cares for us?
Shouldn't there be more reverence in the simple magnitude of the truth?
But fear jumps out from the dark shadows
And mocks me.
Do I really want deep truth?
Am I willing to set my sacrifice before him?
To move from
Known to unknown?
Control to surrender?
Anger to forgiveness?
But without faith, I am nothing.
I take the first step...again.
And if I am pushed back to start once more
I will continue to prevail
With His strength.
He will lead me.
Never leave me.
He has promised.
My heart races. It feels. There is life. I kneel with my face to the floor in awe of your goodness, in awe of what you have done.
You have saved me from hatred and unforgiveness that consumed me.
I am forgiven, set free because of you, Oh God.
There is no place for me to go but into your presence.
Psalm 8
Lord, our Lord how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory in the heavens.
Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.
You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
