Utterly Awed...

Looking unto the author of

Our joy and peace, faith, hope and love

Compels us to consider more

The who or what we’re living for

This gracious gift wherein we stand

Runs rife with mercies from a hand

Scarred with the evidence of grace

Where none was fit to take His place

The cross, ah, who can comprehend

A God whose grief and love would send

His only beloved Son, Jesus

To be the sacrifice for us

Thus in return we ought to be

Role models of humility

And follow the example of

The One who taught us how to love

(Forgive us Lord, when we forget

For we are all just learning yet

And my, oh my, so oft we prove

How much we need your grace and love)

Then, looking to the author of

Redemption’s prize; faith, hope and love

Peace and joy overflows its banks

With worship’s utter, awestruck thanks

© Janet Martin

Heb.12:1-2
  ...let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, 
 and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; 
who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,
 despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.