It only took a simple song this morning
To bring knees to the floor and hands to the sky
Tears falling from a face raised
Just a song
A reminder
A necessary pause from the inescapable noise and frantic pace of a normal day
Yahweh…
The name so sacred
So holy
That once caused hearts to tremble and lips to refuse to repeat it
The sound of a breath
The Breath of Life itself
With a song, the name once again
Twists my heart
Turns it inside out
Wringing every bit of praise from its deepest places
Yahweh…
Ancient One
“I Am Who I Am”
Forever present, unchanging in love and power, mercy and grace
Forgive me
Forgive us
When we forget
When we struggle against the worship of the beautiful Unseen
When our full ears can’t hear the cadence of Your whisper
When our eyes fail to take in the undeniable glory of every day miracles
When our busy hands distract us from Your hands at work
Yahweh…
I cannot say it without being changed
In perspective
In reverence
My life and breath and meaning
My hope and purpose and motivation
My God
My Father
My Savior
My Friend
My (can I even bear the words?) Groom
My Everything
Yahweh…
Bend my knees and lift my hands
Capture me with Your vastness
Focus my eyes on the glorious invisible
And my ears on Your still, small voice
And please, oh please
Let me never be the same…
Revelation 1:8 – “I am the Alpha and the Omega–the beginning and the end,” says the Lord God. “I am the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come–the Almighty One.”
1 Corinthians 8:6 – But we know that there is only one God, the Father, who created everything, and we live for him. And there is only one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom God made everything and through whom we have been given life.
Psalm 83:18 – Then they will learn that you alone are called the LORD, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth.
