To Encounter His Face || 2010.08.15

Do you see the face of God?
Do you live for each encounter?
Or do we run when His voice echoes through us?
Do I try to hide as He calls out my name?

Even though my heart within me burns,
My eyes, to witness the fire of His eyes.
Lord! Undo me!
Ruin the fortresses that stand between us!
The fortresses designed by my own mind,
and constructed with my own hands,
and the investment that is my blood.

Change my heart within me
Change my blood for yours, Messiah.
Raise the hue of my face to a picture of You,
Raise up my hands to raise Your name.
Be lifted up on all that I am,
Be exalted on the throne above greatness,
and be exalted to me on the throne of my heart.

Teach me to choose Love,
to walk in all Your ways.
Give to me the beat of Your heart
that it alone will keep my time.
Eternity is too short
Yet always still Your Love.
All my life cannot contain it.
So as You pour Love in, it breaks me down.
The foundations of myself are crumbled.
In all my weakness, to You I hold on
Immersed in Love I cannot drown.

See the world through Love,
As it flows in, its reach goes out.
So my heartfire burns in those fire eyes.
Fortresses ruined, but not my heart.
My whole world changed.

~JLB