We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God's feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God's share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of 'our own' pocket, a deduction from the time which ought, we feel, to be 'our own'.
-C.S.Lewis
How is it that I so easily forget You? In the midst of the wilderness I can do nothing but cry out to You. Once I step forth from the desert You are tossed aside like a life jacket on the shore. I don't want to take my eyes off of You. I don't want to desire anything other than You.
But after I finish my devotion time with You each morning and after my feet have been washed of yesterday's sin I so easily forget who puts the air in my lungs. Who tells the sun to warm my skin. Who set me free.
The one thing I ask of the LORD—
the thing I seek most—
is to live in the house of the LORD all the days of my life,
delighting in the LORD’s perfections
and meditating in his Temple.
-Psalm 27:4
I don't want to forget You. I don't want to take You for granted. I don't want money, popularity, glory, laughter, entertainment, or anything that isn't You. Yesterday I got fitted for a tux and today I went to a bachelor party for another friend. You are all I want. Your presence is more precious than a wife. Whatever it takes to keep my heart hungry for You Lord keep me there.
Jesus, the name that charms my fears, that bids my sorrows cease. It's music in the sinner's ear, it's life, and health, and peace. You break the power of canceled sin, You set the prisoner free. Your blood can make the foulest clean. Your blood availed for me.
I want to live in Your house all the days of my life. I want to find satisfaction in Your perfections and Yours alone. I want to mediate with You. Help me Abba to lay everyday at Your feet.
A Thousand Tongues - Jeff Anderson