Words that always come so easy, they seem so difficult for me to write today
For what words on this side of heaven could even be worthy enough to magnify Your name
The gift of writing beautiful poetry, a gift You gave me, yet I’ve used it selfishly, instead of using it to give You praise
I was blind then, but I see clearly, my perspective is different, Jesus You have forever left me changed
I was but a child, a young man, with no understanding about this life when You and I exchanged lives and my spirit man You saved
Over the years since, I have come to find, that You are my most prized possession and I’ll never toss You asunder come what may
I haven’t been the most upright of Your flock, I am one of the most stubborn sheep, I always go astray
But You have never got fed and said that was the last straw, You always left the other 99 and came calling me with the biggest smile on Your beautiful face
In fact, long before I ever got saved or baptised, long before I ever acknowledged You as King or gave You any form of praise
You were in pursuit of me, I don’t mean that with any arrogance, You know my heart’s motive and understand what I am referring to as I say
I was at death’s door so much I’ve lost count when all those around me died, You protected me from that which they said was impossible to survive
As though You were leaving me clues, telling me that there’s a God and that You were the only God that was alive
Or that’s how I saw it, perhaps it was just my parents praying for protection, but I knew there was a bigger power who had its eye on me or I’d have been dead at the age of 5
Yet here I am close to 40 years old and I know You a lot better than I did when I got save way back on Mother’s day in 2005
From then till now You haven’t failed me once even when all I do is drop the ball every single day.
I know that You love me, my mind just does not understand the depth of Your love nor the degree
You have shown me things in my life that most people pursue day in and day out but never get the chance to see