Forgiveness
Love
Mercy
What do these thing have in common?
Their Creator, the One who is the
personification of all these qualities and more.
He who is Just, Forgiving, Loving, and Merciful.
God is Holy and Righteous
His justice is truth and right
We deserve this justice
But that means punishment!
He is Love, He created us and wants us
He desires a relationship with us
He once had us, but we fell
We broke the intimacy, we deserve punishment
He is forgiving and desires to forgive us
We do wrong but He wants us
If He forgives us we can be reunited
That intamacy can be rebuilt
But how? We deserve death,
We deserve punishment, where is His mercy?
What can reconcile justce and love?
Can we be forgiven when there is punishment?
There is mercy, there is love, and it is just!
In the Messiah there is reconciliation
He became our sin and took our death
Now we are forgiven and justice is executed
Now that Love that died for us
Forgives us and sets us free from wrath
Our punishment was taken
We are reunited with the Creator
~ Sarah Daly (5-9-10)
Everlasting Fire
The forest burns, the grass withers in the flames
As does your life, your soul, caught in sin
Turned to ashes, you are lost
All is dead, all is worthless, burnt to nothing
The death you die, you die each day
But hope died in your place
The fires consume your identity
Yet a life-giving flame brings you hope
A cross of blazing hope;
Resurrection that brings new life
The forest once burned, the grass once withered
Quenching rain fell and devoured the flames
Under the ashes new life appeared
Joy rode in on the wings of hope
The night of death is swept away
By the first lights of morning
The dawn of a new day
Showers light on the blooms of life
On the back of life is salvation
With songs of a new day on my lips
The joy of your salvation ignites my soul
Consuming my being with radiant hope
We now share in the joy of light
Shining from the everlasting fire
~Sarah Daly (with the much needed help of Jonathan Stout)
(10-10-10)
Crowd
I stand there looking into the crowd
I don’t know where to go
Influences and Persuasions
Toss me to and fro
Where is the one who will rescue me
Where is the one that I love
Where is the who will reach down
And pull me out of the crowd
Where is my savior
I’m told that I should look this way
The reason is to please
But when I look into the mirror
I’m drowning in the crowd
Where is the one who will rescue me
Where is the one that I love
Where is the who will reach down
And pull me out of the crowd
Where is my savior
I’m stand there looking up the hill
He’s nail to a beam of wood
His blood flows down into the crowd
And now I’m finally free!
He is the One who will rescue me
He is the One that I love
He is the Who will reach down
And pull me out of the crowd
He is my Savior!
I see him walking out of the crowd
He’s one in a million, I know
The one perfectly fashioned
To live life with only me
~Sarah Daly (1-28-11)~
