Water(Fall)

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this day is full of water

sweat from the heat outside

dripping down my forehead,

appearing from nowhere,

coursing down my arms

but also tears from words I read,

gospel words, black and blue words,

soul-struggle words

I cry for the hardness of my heart,

cry for all the words I haven't said but should've,

for meaningless phrases I've perfected all the while

oh I need to beg

beg God

beg for healing, beg for brokenness

beg for change

I'm a begger, lower than the sand, wet with repentence

washed over with the waves of love

carried to a reef of strength

oh tears, oh waters come over me

Spirit of truth, rain down

infuse broken words with radiant spears

to conquer and complete

look down and see your wounds

see woundings you've taken

and those you've given

all while spitting at a Holy God

you are broken like a shell

smashed with sin, sucked dry by self

nothing, no search, no self-made triumph

can piece you together and hold you up

yet you strive

if you don't know God,

come see his anger

see his hot and holy wrath

like the sun

beating down on all the wrongs

you are wrong

he is sinless

he is rightly angry

if you don't know Jesus,

come to him, come crawling,

come sweat-drenched and sad,

his perfection is glad to see

a heart in true surrender

in your terror,

see the way he has made

his humanity was perfect, his death perfecting

a pathway now

that leads to God

his death took all your wrong

bore it on his burning shoulders

all death died

for he's alive

he's defied, decried sin's ruling

and in him

you can be whole once more

if you don't know Jesus

come to him

he's worth the giving-up

the letting-go

the terrifying plunge

will sink you in deeper waters

ones that lap with peace

peace with God

through Jesus Christ

this day is full of water

come, dip yourself down into it

today's the day

R<3