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SANCTIFICATION
by Marijo Phelps I invited the Holy Spirit inside To come and abide in me I was promised there'd be a big ZAP And then I'd be set free The Lord in heaven heard my prayer And the Comforter to me He sent But it seems He had different plans For the big freedom event Yes, I was more sensitive To the whisperings of His voice I had more power in witnessing And His became more my choice But then as we went along I gradually began to see things that had been there all along that sure were ugly in me My action seemed to fall so short Of all I envisioned to do And that quiet voice deep within said "Let me have more of you." I thought I gave you my all in all When You came to live inside But now I see more garbage, Lord, "Won't You please throw it outside?" Some of it was stuck so deep You had to cut it out of me But Your love and peace sustained through all my surgery I thought I must be "free" by now But then You found another "thing" You said it really had to go Because of all the trouble it'd bring By now I was a little mixed up Because I'd been promised, you see That if I invited You inside that I really would be FREE I began to kick a little And tell You You weren't fair There are those who'd like to say You went off and left me there But You and I know otherwise You stayed and dealt with me And when I got a little ornerier You turned me across Your knee Oh, sometimes I talked real loud Trying to drown You out As I stood up on my hind legs With a defiant prance and shout But pretty soon You'd let me know How miserable it would be If I hung onto that hunk of junk And in response You left me Okay, I'll quiet down and listen Guess You can take that out too Because if You really left me I wouldn't know what to do well, You've cleaned house a little And rearranged me here and there With more of You and less of me It's like a breath of fresh spring air!! Oh, it hurt when You made me open THAT door And sort through what was inside But I know not to keep doors closed Because that means I am trying to hide Sometimes I get lazy and coast along And pretty soon You're poking at me Can't You let me rest a minute, I'm still a child you see And You smile that paternal smile And tell me that's about it In fact Jesus even "hired" You To come in me and baby-sit I can see that here and now But I realize along the way I might put up more road "balks" And You'll remind me of this day Father, Jesus and Holy Ghost I want to thank You now and here For being loving and patient with stubborn ME When I'm obviously anything but a dear! My blog is: http://myincrediblelord.blogspot.com/ (C) Marijo Phelps all rights reserved. Use with proper credits. About Self Saved by His grace in 1974, from 9 years of professing atheism into His loving arms. RN for 23 years, missionary with YWAM then statistical analyst for Every Home for Christ over 9 years. Living with my husband in the middle of a mountain meadow. GRIN! Wanting to spread the good news Article Source: http://www.faithwriters.com |