I used to hear you talk to me,
like you were sitting across from me,
but now I don't hear anything.
Yet still somehow you're coming in clearly.
"come walk with me,"
I feel your spirit beckoning,
somewhere deep within the mystery.
I've come to end of me,
tired of chasing empty things,
tired of searching for fame and glory,
tired of running from the enemy,
or what I thought was him, but was really my calling.
You said in me you're doing a new thing.
Re-created by the one who fashioned every part of my being.
I'm not who I used to be,
so tell me-- where is your voice,
the way you'd whisper to me back in the days of old,
back when you were my first love,
back to when it was just us,
back when you were more than enough.
"Learn of me"
you say silently,
in your unspoken Word,
like the most beautiful silent film I ever heard.
The power of the cross & its imagery,
dancing across the screen,
pages turning,
my soul yearning.
"Who are you, Lord," I ask bashfully.
"I am who I am, not who you think I am,"
you say confidently.
Shockingly, I try to take in the scene.
A man hanging on a cross,
dying for MY sins.
Sins I have even yet to commit.
Sins I have even yet to admit.
Sins I don't even believe really exist.
Yet still the man takes his last breath,
yielding to death,
for me, for me.
Even when I hated him he rescued me,
from an eternity of suffering,
from myself and the lies I've believed,
Three days go by like a tragedy,
On the third day, he's alive, it's a masterpiece!
He picked me up from my pain,
whispered in a familiar way,
"My love is greater than words could ever say."
This is the romance of eternal covenant,
It's faith that gives substance,
It's mercy not judgement.
It's not all the feels.
His love is real.
It's relentless, reckless, will stop at nothing kind of love.
It's breathless, never ending, unashamed kind of love.
It's mature, matchless, uncommon and holy.
Unlike any other, the essence of matrimony.
The marriage of two becoming one,
first and last love,
this is us, just us.
I can hear you talk to me,
like you were sitting across from me,
it's coming in clearly,
"come dance with me."
