To Gaze Upon Your Beauty
Jesus. You are greater than I know.
I want more of you than I have now and than I have ever had before. Is it greed to never be satisfied with the glimpse of you I've already been given? To always want more and more? Deeper and deeper. Farther and farther.
I feel I have only just begun this swim into the sea of your heart. And there is no shore to reach, only more and more of you. Only further and further into your heart.
I find myself trying to swim faster, though I will never reach the end. And that is the beauty of You. You never end.
For every drop of you I taste there are a billion downpours. For every note of you that delights my ear there are endless symphonies.
I have only begun to see, and I want more.
And I think it is true that you are the only thing that it is ok to never be satisfied with. There will always be more to discover. More to feel. More to breathe in. And I'm finding that you love that I can't get enough of you. You want me to want you!
Praise you that you are endless.
Though this world and all its treasures are only growing dimmer by the second, you and your goodness are only increasing in brightness and intensity and brilliance. Oh how I ache to be fully with you now! To gaze, unveiled, upon your beauty and majesty and glory! Oh to have doves eyes for you. Eyes that only see you. Ever only you.
Teach me this way of walking; to look into your eyes - you, stooped over walking slowly backwards holding my hands gently, step by step - and to follow you always. Teach me this way of living. I want to step in your footprints.
Show me more Jesus. Increase my faith and knowledge of you. Only you can do it! I cannot climb the ladder up to you.
You must come down to me.
So come down more! You already have! You are already here. Now the scales must come off my eyes so I may see you.
Your eyes are fire. Your face shines like the sun. Your hair is pure flowing white.
What does this mean?? Who are you Jesus?? I know nothing of you!
Oh I am so clumsy at all this! But you know that, and you love me even so.
I hate myself sometimes for stumbling so much.
But...you delight in picking me up again. My stumblings only bring you nearer.
Because you love showing me that my stumblings are only always because of a lie. Because I have believed some lie again.
Would you whisper to me the truth again. Please. Pick me up and whisper your love songs into my ears. I will choose to believe them because they are from your lips. You are the Truth. The father of lies has never touched you. So every word from your mouth is pure, undefiled, delicious Truth.
So I will believe it. With your grace and love, I will come to believe it.
That you love me and you are for me. That you have only good things in store for me. That you are not disappointed in me! Even when I can't stand myself, you can't get enough of me! Ha! Wow you're so good! And that even now. Right now. You are here, standing over my shoulder while I'm typing away. You're right there behind me, with your hand on my shoulder, looking at this lovesong to you, and you're smiling. Oh! The joys of making you smile! It's a beautiful smile and it's welling into a laugh! Haha! I could live off of that smile for the rest of my life.
Just let me stay here with you.
Ah, here is true freedom. To dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
To never leave your presence. Here in your presence is fullness! Fullness of joy!
"One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple." Psalm 27:4
"You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore." Psalm 16:11
I want more of you than I have now and than I have ever had before. Is it greed to never be satisfied with the glimpse of you I've already been given? To always want more and more? Deeper and deeper. Farther and farther.
I feel I have only just begun this swim into the sea of your heart. And there is no shore to reach, only more and more of you. Only further and further into your heart.
I find myself trying to swim faster, though I will never reach the end. And that is the beauty of You. You never end.
For every drop of you I taste there are a billion downpours. For every note of you that delights my ear there are endless symphonies.
I have only begun to see, and I want more.
And I think it is true that you are the only thing that it is ok to never be satisfied with. There will always be more to discover. More to feel. More to breathe in. And I'm finding that you love that I can't get enough of you. You want me to want you!
Praise you that you are endless.
Though this world and all its treasures are only growing dimmer by the second, you and your goodness are only increasing in brightness and intensity and brilliance. Oh how I ache to be fully with you now! To gaze, unveiled, upon your beauty and majesty and glory! Oh to have doves eyes for you. Eyes that only see you. Ever only you.
Teach me this way of walking; to look into your eyes - you, stooped over walking slowly backwards holding my hands gently, step by step - and to follow you always. Teach me this way of living. I want to step in your footprints.
Show me more Jesus. Increase my faith and knowledge of you. Only you can do it! I cannot climb the ladder up to you.
You must come down to me.
So come down more! You already have! You are already here. Now the scales must come off my eyes so I may see you.
Your eyes are fire. Your face shines like the sun. Your hair is pure flowing white.
What does this mean?? Who are you Jesus?? I know nothing of you!
Oh I am so clumsy at all this! But you know that, and you love me even so.
I hate myself sometimes for stumbling so much.
But...you delight in picking me up again. My stumblings only bring you nearer.
Because you love showing me that my stumblings are only always because of a lie. Because I have believed some lie again.
Would you whisper to me the truth again. Please. Pick me up and whisper your love songs into my ears. I will choose to believe them because they are from your lips. You are the Truth. The father of lies has never touched you. So every word from your mouth is pure, undefiled, delicious Truth.
So I will believe it. With your grace and love, I will come to believe it.
That you love me and you are for me. That you have only good things in store for me. That you are not disappointed in me! Even when I can't stand myself, you can't get enough of me! Ha! Wow you're so good! And that even now. Right now. You are here, standing over my shoulder while I'm typing away. You're right there behind me, with your hand on my shoulder, looking at this lovesong to you, and you're smiling. Oh! The joys of making you smile! It's a beautiful smile and it's welling into a laugh! Haha! I could live off of that smile for the rest of my life.
Just let me stay here with you.
Ah, here is true freedom. To dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
To never leave your presence. Here in your presence is fullness! Fullness of joy!
"One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple." Psalm 27:4
"You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore." Psalm 16:11
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