If I'm praising You, always rejoicing in You,

 then I'm too busy to notice,  too distracted to notice, 

 the fallen flesh all around me.

I choose to focus on Your risen flesh, Jesus.

Your holy flesh, rather than wicked, rebellious,  unholy flesh,

 which I'm often surrounded with.

I choose to notice Your wonders, not their blunders.

In the light of Your face - all else grows strangely dim.

Your perfection,  not their sin, is my recollection. 

I'm focusing on You Father!

This day is extraordinary because You are with me,

 pregnant with purpose  - anything can happen, and often does!

WORDS THAT DON'T EXIST IN HEAVEN

 

Pain

Sick, Sickness

Disease

Crime

Sin

Murder, Murderers

Rape, Rapists

Victim(s)

Adultery

Fornication 

Racist, Racism

Theft, Thieves

Lawyers, Solicitors 

Police, Police Stations

Judges

Jails, Prisons

Inmates

Slave, Slaves

Captives

Kidnappers, Kidnapping 

Abductors

Dishonest, Lies, Lieing, Liar

Unbelief, Unbelievers 

Shame

Atheism,  Atheists

Doubt

Sorrow

Blasphemy 

Bully, Bullying

Lonely, Lonliness 

Heartache 

Mock, Mocking,  Mockers

Death

Hell

Graves

Rebellion,  Rebels

Boredom,  Boring

Poverty, Poor

Lack, Lacking

Pride

Unwanted

Unloved

Stupid, Stupidity 

Dumb

Blind, Blindness

Deaf, Deafness

Mute

Unclean

 Oh Lord

 I praise You for this moment in time.

 This day - it may seem mundane and ordinary 

 but You make it extraordinary!

Thank You! Your presence makes every day worth living!

 Without You I'd rather die, but indeed, in You I live and breathe

 and I have my being  -  You hold all my molecules together  - don't you!

"Be ye holy as I am holy" is not a command for us to follow  - rather He is speaking over us - speaking our personal holiness into existence.  He is granting us His holiness,  sharing with us, covering us, for His holiness is the only holiness in existence,  though Satan has convinced many he is holy and they too can be holy apart from God.

 Life makes me ache

 with a pain deep in my chest

Though there's joy in the mourning 

 there's also a kind of helplessness 

 like I'm a leaf tossed on the surface of a vsst sea

 Marveling at the lightnings and the thunderings

 even as I'm drowning 

The enormity of it all

 causes the ache to rise and fall

It's sometimes near the surface 

 sometimes buried deep

Sometimes I laugh

 sometimes I weep

 but the ache of living is never far from me

The innocence of a child

 is my lofty goal

 to take no care for thoughts

 and no thoughts for cares

 that burden my soul

To trust my Father 

 like His son Jesus did -

 never straying from the love that He gives

Able to truly love

 in each moment like it's all there is

Come to Me

 all of ye

 who are weary

 and laden with heavy

 burdens and cares

 and I will give you rest

 if with Me you'll share

 yes, share your heart with Me

 For I love you faithfully 

 I am not as men

 that I would lie

 or waver or doubt

 My love for you

 is always true

 inside and out

Things I can't believe

 

I can't believe 

 The Lord would abandon me.

And I can't believe 

 there is no grace or mercy.

I can't believe 

 God's heart doesn't  breaks with grief

 every time He sees

 another soul lost for eternity. 

I can't believe 

 there's no God up in the sky

And I can't believe 

 He didn't come to earth for you and I

No I can't believe 

 His love can't rescue me 

 from all that is unholy

 including the sin inside of me

but I can believe 

 Your love is mighty

 and continually 

 surrounds me

I can believe 

 Your blood does cleanse

And Your love mends

 all that is broken

Till I am awoken

 to a brand new me...

The one you desire me to be.