Our understanding at best, O God
Is inadequate and trite
On our own each breath a fraud
And every moment, night
Our perception without Your Spirit
Is blinded ignorance
And Death, O death, how I would fear it
But for deliverance
Your mercy, hope and love fulfills
Your changeless eye of grace
The tempter wears ten-thousand ills
Deceiving human race
Our understanding will ever be
Only what God imbues
Therefore but by His grace go we
On earth-bound avenues
Beyond these briefest stance of Time
Our eyes will see anew
As we behold Love, pure, sublime
Oh God, as we see you
© Janet Martin
Behold the Lamb of God
which takes away the sins of the world. John 1:29
"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" -- Jim Elliot
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