From the
beginning, your delight and love for your creation
The joy to be
able to talk and walk with your beloved
but so quickly came
our sinful separation
That fateful
day when your heart first broke
now the only
option Segregation
Oh That we
should doubt your goodness
How did it
grieve you that we chose our own path?
Yet still you
walked with those who walked with you
until evil
overtook the land
To a few the
promise to continue
But to contend
with violent creation
Now to wash
your earth anew
Yet we did what
we saw fit to do
Still, you
pursued mankind
creating a
people, set apart
ever trying to
intersect flesh and the divine
making
covenants that we would break again and again
Holy God Declaring
these are mine
Yet we did not
return to you
Waiting for us
to turn about
Your desire that we would want you
So, you could
come and campout
Then you dared
to speak to one in the wilderness
Displays of
wonder that should erase all doubt
Yet we wandered
away from you
Your chosen
ones turning to idols
Waiting for
even one king to walk with you
Your people feeling
entitled
In your compassion
you sent your prophets
Warning of
Catastrophe and trials
And yet we
still did not return
Aching in
Silence stretching on for hundreds of years
And at the
appointed time you reached your right arm down
So, the way would be clear
The payment for
our unfaithfulness
Jesus the only
one who could volunteer
Still, we rejected
your gift
Do you ever
wonder if it was worth it?
If we were
worth it?
Does it grieve
you more that we stumble and fail?
Or is it that we have not believed in the depth
of your love and forget the call that says come back?
Yet it is your
joy as our loving father to patiently wait for your children
Beckoning them into the banquet knowing the
fee has been paid
You rejoice
when even one of your lost ones comes home
You say that
you so loved the world that you gave your only begotten son
Though the cost was great, our assurance is this, that your
desire for us is even greater.
“For the Lord takes delight in his people”
(Psalm 149:4 NIV). “He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with
his love, he will rejoice over you with singing” (Zephaniah 3:17 NIV).
So “Let us keep our eyes fixed
on Jesus, on whom our faith depends, from beginning to end. He did not give up
because of the cross! On the contrary, because of the joy that was waiting for
him, he thought nothing of the disgrace of dying on the cross, and he is now
seated at the right side of God's throne. “