Fill me with the pure light of Jesus

I see, 

I see Jesus.
Don’t you see Him?
I sing
praises to His name.
Upward
I glance
toward the heavens
and He is there.
Not hidden .
For just a brief  moment
the face of
my beloved Savior
I see.

Hovering, watching,
And then,
all too quickly,
He is gone .

The light … 
a light we can only imagine
and not very well
at that.
Our ill equipped minds
can’t grasp all that God,
all that Jesus
and all that the Holy Spirit
Is.

We see  …
not with our eyes,
and we hear …
not with our ears,
but totally with our heart
that moment when
God’s pursuing of us
becomes so real
we are enveloped
within His tender touch
not wanting to escape
but only to embrace
and be embraced
with His love and kindness.

The light …
sometimes we see it
sometimes we do not.

We surrender
our selfish lives
and accept God’s will
for our new life,
but have we forgotten
we must walk,
we must follow,
we must obey.

We cannot simply
give up our past,
accept a new beginning
and then do nothing.

We cannot sit idly,
coming to weekly worship
to only think of other things
while the preacher speaks,
and then go home …
going through the motions
week after week
missing it all.

The light …
We need the light.
All of us.
The light
brings us face to face
with Jesus.

The light …
God’s power.
The light …
my faith.

We need His pureness.
Not the black darkness
of the world we live in.
The world can give us nothing.

The Lord is our all  …
Our strength,
Our power.

We can do nothing
without Him

We must surrender.
Live 
In Him.
Not in ourselves.
Believe In Him
He is the treasure
we seek.

Open my eyes
Open my ears
Open my heart Lord.
Fill me with You.

So I may show another
Your love,
Your precious love.

And so I may be
and think
and act
like  a believer,
a follower,
who lives in
Your light
and not in the darkness
that draws us
into ourselves. 

(c) September 28-29, 2013