peace . love . joy

draw me close to You
never let me go
i lay it all down again
to hear You say that i'm Your friend

You are my desire
no one else will do
cos nothing else can take Your place
to feel the warmth of Your embrace

help me find a way
to bring me back to You

You're all i want
You're all i've ever needed
You're all i want
help me know You are near

remember this song and others like it? songs in which you confess that God is all you want, that God is all you've ever needed, that there is none like Him. remember songs such as this?
remember singing them? in church? with God's family?

remember?

remember why you could sing it? remember why when you sang, you sang from the deepest bowels of your being? remember the feeling where every pore and every cell and every electrical impulse in your body was crying out, desperate and hungry for God's touch?

remember?

remember the miracles, big and small, that God placed at points in your life? remember the times when you emerged victorious out of the desert and into the oasis where God was waiting for you? remember the goosebumps you got when you flipped open the Bible and read a verse out loud?

remember?

where are you now?

why arent you in church where you belong? why are you running away from the very One whom you've been so hungry and thirsty and all excited for? why have you given up the race? why have you stopped struggling?

do you think you've been forgotten? read 1 Chronicles. names. names were recorded in history. names that even bible scholars dont know the stories behind are recorded and passed down the generations in the Bible. the Bible. i cant remember the names of every person i've met since the day i could talk. but God remembers the names of each creation he has fashioned. He remembers.

He remembers you. He remembers the times He watched over you when you were so tired that you had to close your eyes and rest. He remembers the times He was so tickled at being sought and found by you. He remembers throwing huge parties in Heaven when you rejoiced in Him. He remembers sending angels to comfort you when you were sad. He remembers you.

do you think you've been forgotten by the people you've met in church? we remember you. do you not know we've wept tears for you? do you not know we've prayed so fervently and passionately for you? do you not know we are so afraid and so sorrowful, yet so full of hope for your return?

even if it takes you till your deathbed to return to Christ, we will keep praying for you, we will keep hoping for you and we, ourselves, will keep on running hard after God.

but i hope. i hope and i pray that it will not take you long to return to the One whom you belong to.

remember when you closed your eyes you could see Jesus smiling at you?

remember?