Before you read the following poem I want to explain something. I just recently started to read John Piper's book Desiring God. I find it really fascinating. Parts of it make total sense to me because they are discussing things I've heard a thousand times in a thousand different ways. Other parts, the more detailed versions of those more common insights, are difficult for me to comprehend. The main concept seems to be that "The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever," or "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him." This is tough to hear for someone who sometimes struggles to believe that God exists and that He is good and better than everything else. It is hard to believe for someone, like Peter, who all too easily stops looking at Christ and looks at the waves instead. It is hard to think about for someone who doesn't like to go to church because she so often feels like she is lying when she sings the songs but who doesn't like to not go to church because she really wants to love the Lord above all else and find her ultimate joy in Him. So I wrote my own poem that I feel honours what is really going on in my head better than most Christian songs. This isn't about someone who has fully recognized the beauty of God, but it is about someone who wants to. Talking about God is always a controversial topic. So please try not to get mad if I offend you, I'm not trying to. I'm merely sharing what's on my mind.
I’ve wandered in this wilderness for far
too long
But I keep on hearing this one great song
It draws me onward
Though I stumble and slip
It draws me upward
Though this darkness is thick
It is the song of a million witnesses
Of the most unimaginable beauty
And I too want to see the magnificence
Though something always seems to stop me
So mine is a small voice crying in the
darkness
Give me
water so I won't thirst,
Bread that I shall never hunger,
Light so I'll never stumble
But really all I long for is a
glimpse of that one face
And a true encounter with the
glorious beauty of grace
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