Author: householdoftheholyfamily

I look at world and only see
     The darkness that is there
And wonder if we can be free
     To hope Your light is near.

And then I see by light that comes–
     This darkness is in me–
That world was meant to be our home:
     We’re meant to live sin free.

I see I’m always in Your sight
     In light from You that shines,
And truth from You is heaven’s might:
     You enter heart and mind.

Your truth in me dispels my night,
     And my eyes see so clear
That You have for us won the fight;
     Your love casts out our fear. 

O Lord, I see our sin gives birth to death–
Those two will not among the living be–
But creep upon us in their cunning stealth
To bind us and to never set us free.

But You, I see, have come to kill these foes
Who for protection wrap themselves in self,
Discover their own inner world of woe
Is on the way to death and not to health.

Your breath You breathe in us is heaven’s air
With fragrance sweet from that eternal “yes”
Your Mother spoke to open garden fair
Where gate was locked ‘til we come as her guest.

O death, you are the sword used by our Lord
To kill our sin with His Incarnate Word. 

In present if we are to be content
We also must be so about our past,
For it must be redeemed with our consent:
Be taken into what forever lasts. 

Our mem’ries by forgiveness must be bathed
In Blood that’s shed by God’s Begotten Son,
Then in them what He chooses will be raised
To live forever in His triumph won.

In heaven all our past will always live
Forever present in eternity
In His Son’s new creation Father gives,
And past is from our sin forever free.

This means in present we can His joy know
As we now bask in heaven’s morning glow

Come, with Your breath dispel our mists;
     Awaken us from sleep.
May faith in You return Your kiss
     As we rise from the deep.

Give us unfailing gentleness
     Toward all of those we meet,
As You fill up our emptiness,
     And we salvation greet.

May we know every day Your gift
|     Of life eternal here,
As You to heaven all us lift
     To meet the angels there.

When we awake into the dawn
     With hearts by You made light,
We’ll know then with You we belong;     
  We’re saved by humble might.

The sky surrounds the earth above–
Your mercy wraps us ‘round:
Is justice wrapped in heaven’s love
That in Your heart for us abounds.

In mercy we Your glory see,
Makes worthless gods our hands have made,
For with You they can never be;
In glory they away will fade.

And when they’re gone Your truth shines forth—
In wisdom wrapped we see the whole—
A vision like a second birth
That cleanses both our body, soul.

And now we see within the sky
A Cross where wisdom is revealed:
We know that when we all will die
Our tomb by You has been unsealed. 

We’re banished to a no-man’s land
Where we were not supposed to be
And yet You take us by the hand,
Transform our sin so we can see
What You have done to set us free.

Through us You propagate our race
To tame our fallen wilderness,
Provide for us a living space
Where we can learn Your faithfulness
To all creation–through us bless.

When time is full You to us come
In Person of Begotten Son
Through Mary, one of us become,
And over death Your victory won
For Satan’s lies have been undone. 

Now we will live eternally
With Son, who human nature raised,
In dawn changed for us gradually
To light of His eternal day,
As we to Him give all our praise. 

I climb the mountain of our time
With portents of my death I bare
And do not notice time’s own signs
That death will be my final snare.

The meaning of my life I seek
With every step is death more real
May I here have at least one peak
At purpose will my meaning seal?

I hear the words, “God will provide”
Come from a Cross raised on a hill
From Lamb who has come to my side
And promises to my sin kill.

Caught in a thorn bush that’s a Cross.
For me a sacrifice brings life
And willingly I count as loss
My darkness, dissipates in light

For now I see a grave beyond
That hill whose summit I have reached:
It’s empty and my sin’s undone
As Him on other side I meet.

Casts meaning on my former steps
As heaven through His Cross I glimpse
And now His purpose for me met
In Blood my sin will from me rinse.

His vision of the whole His gift
To me and all who with Him die
And rise with Him to life He lifts
Where love and joy and peace abide. 

In everything we say and do
We Jesus praise who guides our way;
In spite of all that is askew
We praise the Lord through all our days.

Amid the toils and trials of life
Our voices all His praise we sing,
His words through us bring endless light–
Dispels the darkness round us rings.

And when our days on earth are done,
We’ll join the angels in their praise
Of Him who for us vict’ry won:
In life anew we’re with Him raised. 

I look at world and only see
     The darkness that is there
And wonder if we can be free
     To hope Your light is near.

And then I see by light that comes–
     This darkness is in me–
That world was meant to be our home:
     We’re meant to live sin free.

I see I’m always in Your sight
     In light from You that shines,
And truth from You is heaven’s might:
     You enter heart and mind.

Your truth in me dispels my night,
     And my eyes see so clear
That You have for us won the fight;
     Your love casts out our fear. 

May bitter root not spring to life in me
But die forever death on Your Cross killed
As grows in me Your fruit that sets me free
To live Your life in me by Spirit filled.

May I a new creation here become
That others see in me Your glory’s hue,
As I will not to Satan’s lure succumb
But each day trust in You to be renewed.

You are in me the life, the truth, the way,
Whatever stage of life I’m in on earth,
And I must learn to let You have Your say
As You Yourself in me each day are birthed.

Please live in me according to Your will
With my old life in me forever stilled.