Was It worth it?

Was it worth it?

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. “

1 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 fixing our eyes. 3 For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart