I found this poem in my sketchbook tonight. I had forgotten about it. I wrote it over Spring Break when I was having a really difficult time with the implication of what it means to run after God and my position in that. Thought I would share it here.
March 24, 2008
They say if I climb to the tallest of mountains
I would surely find you there
The words are ringing true as I'm climbing
straining, running out of air
For at the top it's just you and me there now
I stand firmly upon the rock
that before me has been set
Yet the prince of the air circles about
waiting to try his luck just yet
And I wonder why this place you have brought me
is the firmest but most precarious yet
For it is nearer to the Heavens I am now
but to the elements of the air I'm fully exposed
Can You understand my reservation, my hesitation
to the results of obedience's path that has led?
You have not yet called me home
and still in this world I reside
The path of seeking righteousness brings about toils and troubles
that the flesh so easily caves
Dear Lord, You know I have taken up Your cross
and to all it brings I will humbly obey
Yet I pray upon this precarious mountaintop
You tether me to Your arms
So when the things of this world and prince of this air come about
causing me to say, I will not fall
Because if left alone, I surely may
You are my cornerstone. Only You.
And You alone.
You must be my all in all.
You alone.
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