Posted on 04/03/2016 7:33:52 AM PDT by pastorbillrandles
Dear LORD, I’ve been looking back…
and remembering the day you opened up my eyes..
In the painful winter of my young life…
You showed me something I had never seen before,
(tho I had often gazed at the crucifix in church and wondered…)
But when I read the book, (tho I was depressed and distracted)
You put clay in my eyes, and opened them…
now I see, that
“He made him who knew no sin, to be sin for us…”
You commanded me to understand…
That as a substitute, Jesus died for me…
Dear LORD I have been looking around…
Where are those who set out on the good path with me?
What happened to throw so many off the track?
Who has bewitched my brothers and sisters
…the ones who had rejoiced at the beginning?
We began so well…and so strong!
We were the ‘Kings Kids’, we who flooded the churches…
We were so hungry, going to conferences and devouring cassettes,
And we worshipped you,
We sang in the Spirit, lifting Holy Hands..
Oh how we knew “the Power of Praise”
…and we always gave Chick tracts to the lost …
We let Keith Green challenge us, 2 Chapter of Acts and Love Song too…
They were our Psalmists.
Here we are almost forty years later,
so much closer to your return
and I wonder…are they asleep? Or have they died? (Twice dead?)…
Where did they go?
We didn’t think the fire would ever go out…nor the Love would fade…
I was sure you would be here by now…but I wait…
Dear Lord I cringe, at the remembrance of our youthful pride,
We were going to do this better than any others before us,
So we dove into Word/Faith, inner healing, deliverance, and Power Evangelism,
We despised “Religion”, which we considered dead…
could this be how so many of us died?
What happened to so many?
How You warned us all, dear Shepherd ,
of the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches…
And the lust for other things…
What did we expect would happen, as we heaped to ourselves teachers,
and prophets tellings us what we wanted to hear?
We should have listened…(but they told us we were great!)
What did we want?
What is there that is better than knowing you, dear Shepherd of my Soul?
LORD I have been looking up…for I know, that my Redemption draweth nigh…
For it is obvious now, that this world is soon passing…
I never wanted to have to live in Sodom… nor Egypt…
I have always longed for something higher and purer…
Than this world has to offer…
You put that longing in us OH Lord,
Thank you, Author and finisher, for preserving me…
You woke me up…
on the day when my friends celebrated the blasphemy,
as tho it were bold faith…
When We asked ourselves,
‘What have we gotten ourselves into?’…
But patiently you took us back…
to that which we heard at the beginning,
I Love you Lord, for your correction, for by it…
You have saved me, and do save me, and will yet save me till the end!
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