I’m empty. All is nothing.
And answers fade to black.
I’ve lost my way
and cannot say
I’ll find which road leads back.
For what door is there to open?
And what word will I receive?
What will be found if do seek,
when I clearly don’t believe?
And yet, You tell me, “Ask…”
and yet You say to seek;
yet still, You say the door will open
by a spirit – lowly, meek.
As so I ask once more,
and strive to so discern…
all that can be sought about You,
and what all I must learn.
And then in some despair,
a churning hunger feeds…
as I humbly cast my cares,
and found You’ve met my needs.
I don’t deserve Your faithfulness.
I haven’t earned Your favor.
And yet it beams
like peaceful streams
from a brook that I now savor.
Your Light outshines my darkest hour.
You Word, a lamp, for this strayed lamb;
all within Your grace and power –
that I know You, Great I AM.
Let me pray this prayer once more,
if by it, I might see…
and hear,
You near
so I won’t fear
and “still” forever be.
Line 12 – Matthew 7:7-8
Line 13 – Matthew 11:28-29
Line 19 – Matthew 5:6
Line 20 – 1 Peter 5:7
Line 21 – Matthew 6:7-8
Line 23 – Ephesians 2:8
Line 25 – Psalm 23:2, Psalm 42:1
Line 27 – John 8:12
Line 28 – Psalm 119:105, Matthew 18:12
Line 30 – Exodus 3:14, Mark 14:61-62
Line 32 – Matthew 13:16
Line 34 – James 4:8
Line 36 – Psalm 46:10