Overwhelm me with Your presence
Overtake me with Your love.
Overcome me with the beauty of Your face.
Overjoy me with Your mercy
Overfeed me with Your sweet words
Overlap me with the blanket of Your grace.
Too much will never be enough
Of all You are for me
My empty cup
You fill it up
Overflowing, constantly.
Override my senseless doubting
Overpower my stubborn will
Overload me with Your yoke I know is light
Overrule selfish ambition
Oversee my every move
Overshadow all I do to show Your might.
Too much will never be enough
Of all You are for me
My heart will sing
New songs I’ll bring
To Overpraise Your name eternally…
1 John 3:1 – See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!
Ephesians 1:7-8 – In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the richesof God’s grace that he lavished on us.
Psalm 36:5 – Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.
Psalm 104:33 – I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
Psalm 103:1 – Praise the LORD, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
Thank you, Jana, for this poem of adoration. It reminded me of one by John Donne, the 17th-Century preacher-poet. Here it is:
BATTER MY HEART, THREE-PERSONED GOD
By John Donne
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurped town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but Oh, to no end.
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betrothed unto your enemy:
Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
Love, Dad
Thanks, dad! I LOVE THIS! I love the language he uses to describe our need for and adoration of God. Amazing! Beautiful words. Yummy. Thank you, dad. Love you so much! xoxoxo