There is no life in this wilderness
Brittle bones bruise and break so easily
Breath has ceased to ignite life
Today seems as desolate as yesterday
Tomorrow is a wasteland of hope.
Sin overtook where love once dwelled
Dried up the spirit where now depression reigns
Death is now the only thing it seems
That can make this lifeless body rest.
But the spirit cries out instead…
OH LORD GOD OF ISRAEL
RESTORE TO ME THE JOY OF MY SALVATION
Reveal yourself to me in this desolate place
Breathe life into these dry, thirsty aching bones
YOU ARE the Resurrection and the Life
In this silence, this desert, my body groans
OH LORD, be my hiding place where I can pray
Acknowledge the sins where the deadness lays
Wash me LORD, cleanse these cracked clay feet
Redemption lies only at the foot of YOUR cross
I bow down to You, my LORD, make me new
Dry, dead bones, you have softened and fashioned
Now LORD, with outstretched arms, tear-flooded eyes
Please, hear my cry
Be my Resurrection and my life!
~Marcell Warner Bridges
©22 March 2015, All Rights Reserved
© Heart Thoughts, Marcie Bridges, 2015
Marcie, this is powerful. How easy it is to put on our happy-face mask and push the pain that suffocates us below the surface where no one can see. But God … God sees and knows all about it and yearns to restore and set us free is only we will let Him. Thank you for this beautiful reminder.
Thank you Nan 🙂 It's also easy to think that God's resurrection power is just for us when we get saved but I'm learning that it is also for when we are in despair or when we sin. I was doing a Beth Moore study several years ago when the verse in 2 Corinthians 5:17 showed up and I remember thinking, you know, this doesn't just apply to salvation. Every time we ask God to forgive us of our sin and He cleanses us from it He then makes us new AGAIN! And that is just so powerful to me!