Lest I Forget
Lord I have not considered myself greatNor taken things to myself greater than I amI have not considered myself Special or of some valueWithout you I am like chaff driven by the windI know that in my flesh dwells nothing goodMy whole body is putrefying, a mass of septic soresI have washed myself in fetid water; I have tried to be righteousIn my religiosity and fervour I have cut off many peoples earsThere is nothing in myself that I can hold aloft and say this is of valueEven the gifts I am born with are contaminated and worthlessLord I am not presumptuous; I cannot offer you anythingI cannot do anything, go anyplace, or say anythingWithout it being sinful in your sight
Yet You have washed me, given Yourself in my placeTaken upon Yourself my punishment, the beatings meant for meYou have bound up my wounds and poured in oil and wineAnd have paid for someone to nurse me back to healthYou have deigned to call me your friend and have treated me as a long lost brotherYou have gathered me into your presence and cradled me in your armsYou have given me a clean robe and shoes on my feetPut a ring on my finger, the token of son-ship on my lifeYou have made a special feast for me, to celebrate my returnI am called your beloved, and You have given me a place at your sideYour grace has dazzled me; Your love has enveloped me with lightLet me see occasionally what I was, lest I be lifted up with pride,And forget that YOU dug me from the pit; YOU gave me LIFE.
18 August 2006
References:psa 131:1 <A Song of degrees of David.> LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.Psa 131:2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.Jam 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.Joh 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. Psalm 19:14© Stephen Share 2006 .
Yet You have washed me, given Yourself in my placeTaken upon Yourself my punishment, the beatings meant for meYou have bound up my wounds and poured in oil and wineAnd have paid for someone to nurse me back to healthYou have deigned to call me your friend and have treated me as a long lost brotherYou have gathered me into your presence and cradled me in your armsYou have given me a clean robe and shoes on my feetPut a ring on my finger, the token of son-ship on my lifeYou have made a special feast for me, to celebrate my returnI am called your beloved, and You have given me a place at your sideYour grace has dazzled me; Your love has enveloped me with lightLet me see occasionally what I was, lest I be lifted up with pride,And forget that YOU dug me from the pit; YOU gave me LIFE.
18 August 2006
References:psa 131:1 <A Song of degrees of David.> LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.Psa 131:2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.Jam 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.Joh 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. Psalm 19:14© Stephen Share 2006 .