All I Need

You are my only solace

when I fall to my knee,

my only hope

and Way

to cope

when I don’t know how to be.

I am so prone to criticize.

I seethe to rage, unbridled;

when overwhelmed by lack or loss

or just when I feel entitled.

I grapple with my failures,

as panic tears me to my core.

But then

just when

I falter,

You soothe each aching sore.

You are my calm in all the storms –

to problems’ poison, my antidote.

Basking in Your grace and mercies,

I count each blessing by rhyme and rote.

Because I am so soon to worry,

so quick to fuss and fret

about each festering turmoil.

How all too often I forget…

…that You, oh God, are sovereign

down to every molecule.

Atoms spun in grand display

or in seeming disarray

cannot circumvent Your rule.

For you govern wild waves at sea.

You prompt the lightning’s strike.

You open wombs

and shake dry tombs.

You speak worlds into life.

You adorn

new morns

with sunlit dew.

You give and also take.

You quake the earth

and spark rebirth.

You rouse and sleepers wake.

You author

all the universe.

You’ve known me,

sewn me,

from my marrow.

You brave sick human hearts,

set them apart.

You see the falling sparrow.

And that, I am,

this present moment–

but the asp can’t lay its seed,

because You, sweet Savior,

gave me rest.

Jesus, You are all I need!

References from the Holy Bible:

Line 3 – Psalm 71:5, 1 Timothy 1:1, Titus 2:13

Line 4 – John 14:6

Line 16 – Jeremiah 8:22

Line 17 – Psalm 107:29-30

Line 19 – Lamentations 3:22-23

Line 29 – Jeremiah 32:17

Line 30 – Job 38:8-11

Line 31 – Job 37:1-5

Line 32 – Isaiah 66:9-19

Line 33 – Ezekiel 37:1-10

Line 34 – Genesis 1:1-4

Line 37 – Job 38:12-13

Line 38 – Job 1:21

Line 39 – Job 9:5-6

Line 40 – John 3:1-8

Line 41 – Isaiah 52:1, Ephesians 5:14

Line 42 – Hebrews 12:2

Line 44 – Psalm 139:1-2

Line 47 – Jeremiah 17:9

Line 48 – Ezekiel 36:26

Line 49 – Matthew 10:29

Line 52 – Genesis 3:15

Line 54 – Matthew 11:28

Line 55 – Philippians 4:19