Faithful glance

I want to be found faithful
I want to be found steady
In the end of days, on the last march, at the hour of reckoning
Where can I give my life towards to this end?

Can I just sit and gaze?
Can I be faithful as You are faithful?
Will You just look at me that I might be changed in that gaze?

Eternity drives me
What prize do I wish to attain?
Where to give my time and affection?
How can I be found faithful?

The answer is in the cry
The answer on my lips already
Before I ask it, I know
How can I simply live in the place of prayer?
Will You orient my life that I might give myself to this life?

I don’t want to leave the Secret Place
I don’t want to lose the gaze
I don’t want to do “good things”

I want to live my hours, my days, my life before Your Eyes
Flaming eyes of fire – search and know this one
Passion arises. Strength and Resolve break forth.
Wash me with the water of Your Word
Again and again, like the sea breakers that cannot be stopped
There is no taming them

Like a hidden treasure, like buried gold and silver
Where You are, that’s where I want to be
Have You not placed me in this school of love?

Just let me pray
Just let me contend
Just set me on the wall
Just give me the charge
My ears strain for the call

Let faith and wonder arise
Here is the safe place, even when life collapses, here is where I go
The alter of the Most High

How is it there is always more?
How is it You are always more?
Would You grant such grace to Your servant to go to the deep places?

Jesus, living flame of Love!

It is still in the first glance
It is still in the gaze, a shared memory
It is still in the Word, enrapturing
How can this soul not return equal obsession?

I remember the dance
I remember the passion
I remember being utterly lost – caught in the throes
How is Your love towards us this way?
How is it we read Your Word and are reduced to mush?

I’ve never known a love like this
I’ve never been so lost in it all
Again and again, batter this heart
Posses, breathe, shine, and seek to mend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make new

Grant what You desire for Your own
If life, if death, if much, if little, if many, if none
Do what You want to do, do whatever it takes
Just come