Lord, I Confess!

Lord, I confess I often view you well below your station. 

Although, all of creation was designed by your orchestration. 

Not seeing you properly in majesty and holiness. 

Just a smidgeon above man, I liken you to our lowliness. 

Oh, how blurred is my sight! The heavens declare your majesty. 

You measured the waters in the hollow of your hand, masterfully. 

Lord, show me your goodness. Reveal your glorious perfection. 

Demonstrate your perfect plan, and your magnificent direction. 

Lord, I confess I often view you as too weak and too small. 

Not Trusting Your supply. Ensnared with worry, I stumble and fall. 

Taking matters into my own hands, I scheme, I toil, I strive. 

Failing to remember it’s Your Breath, alone, that keeps me alive. 

Oh, how my vision is impaired, You’re My Warrior in the fight. 

My Strong tower. You have shielded me and revealed to me Your Might.  

Lord, Protect me. Remove my fear. Let me hide beneath your wing. 

Let me rest within You, within your inheritance and blessing. 

Lord, I confess I sometimes view you not budging from your station. 

Neither My plight nor my needs move you to mobilization. 

Too far above the mundane, I view you as cold and uncaring. 

Ignoring my hardships and cries, blind to how I am faring. 

Yet, you invited me to come and see with the tenderest whisper. 

You’re gentle and lowly. You remove my guilt. You’re my head lifter. 

Lord, commune with me now. Reveal to me your steadfast, loving heart. 

Show me your counsel. Your wisdom, I long for you to impart. 

You are The King of Kings who came down from heaven to dwell with me. 

My Shepherd who leads. I am enveloped in your grace and Mercy. 

In your courts, sitting at your table is where I long to reside. 

Lord, sit with me now in community. Teach me to abide. 

It is only when I see that you belong above the heavens,  

Yet you choose to dwell with me, and from my lowly place you beckoned. 

Knowing that you plucked me from death and provided a guarantee. 

Has broken apart the entitlement, and the apathy. 

Lord, I confess I have viewed myself as worthy of your love. 

Demanding to be by own Master, not yielded to You above. 

Self-proclaimed as justified- High and mighty, but dead inside. 

Oh, how prideful I have been. In my own power I have relied. 

Despite my fear and faithlessness, you still call out, “Follow Me”. 

Your voice captivates. I leave the world behind. You’re my destiny. 

Jesus! How haughty I have been. You’re the Name above all Names. 

Crucified, you held my death. Victorious, now my life you claim. 

Lord, I confess I have viewed myself too far beyond your reach. 

I’m ensnared. Yet Your Love found a way and my prison walls were breached. 

Burdened and mired down in the oozing consequence of sin, 

I feel too frail and fragile to expose my mess and let you in. 

Oh, how foolish I’ve been. Your love always moves in redemption. 

Extending forth Your mighty hand and granting me an exemption.  

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those in Jesus. 

Neither height nor depth, or any evil ever come between us. 

Lord, I confess that of Your gospel, I’ve been silent and ashamed, 

Uncomfortable sharing the one true way, Your splendid name. 

I succumbed to the pressure that You are a topic to avoid. 

When Your salvation are words of life and leave hearts overjoyed.  

Longing to shed the stigma of being strict and intolerant, 

Refusing to stand with truth, I am a willing participant, 

To the prison of sin and the death and decay all around us. 

Lord, teach me to arise and go, to be bold and courageous. 

You are The King of Kings who came down from heaven to dwell with me. 

My Shepherd who leads. I am enveloped in your grace and Mercy. 

In your courts, sitting at your table is where I long to reside. 

Lord, sit with me now in community. Teach me to abide. 

It is only when I see that you belong above the heavens,  

Yet you choose to dwell with me, and from my lowly place you beckoned. 

Knowing that you plucked me from death and provided a guarantee. 

Has broken apart the entitlement, and the apathy.