The Choice of Love
Love is the Friend who is still there
When everything else is lost to reality.
Truth is the unselfish sacrifice
Love needs to be complete.
My very life depends on that choice!
Yet my heart is left aching
With feeling changed by circumstances
My eartly expectations are shattered
Vows are broken and walls are built
Self-respect is lost as I struggle in my resentment
To mend and climb on my own
The Liar says, "There is nothing left! Why even try?"
But Truth is the Friend who is still there
Willing to hold the pieces of a dirty, broken life
In hands scarred by the betrayal
Past my rejection ... past my denial
He is STILL THERE!
His grieving heart beckoning me
With a tender voice that does not condemn
Knowing I have nothing worthy to offer Him
He lays before me forgiveness
And complete acceptance ...JUST AS I AM!
Love is the Friend who is still there
When everything else is lost
Truth is the sacrifice of self
Love needs to be complete
My very life depends on that choice!
Now...true love realized...the choice is mine.
"Greater love has no man that this, that he lay down his life for his friends." Johyn 15:13
--Copyright 2007 by Robin Montgomery Williams. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
The Age for Love
How great is the love the Lord lavishes on me
That I should be called the child of the King!
Naked and bare at the day of my birth,
The Almighty One passed by and deemed me of worth
Rejected, despised, kicking about in my blood
The King looked at me...He saw me...He understood
With nothing to offer, nothing to give.
By His Glory alone, He declared that I live!
Nurtured and cared for, a beautiful jewel,
A princess emerged from the thorns so cruel,
Beautiful but naked of anything good,
The King looked at me...He saw me...He understood.
To the age of love an orphan now grown
He covered me with His cloak and called me His own!
Bathed in His mercy, clothed by His grace
Anointed with the image of Love's own face.
He adorned me with riches my earthly eyes have not seen
Perfected by His splendor I rose to be queen
Beautiful but prideful, I trusted in myself
I claimed the glory He had given me and squandered my wealth.
Spent and broken, bare as at birth,
The Almighty One passed by and deemed me of worth.
Rejected, despised, yet pouring out His blood,
I looked at Him...I saw Him...finally, I understood!
All glory, honor and praise I will sing,
Forever I will exalt my God, my Savior...my King!
"This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us..."
--Copyright 2007 by Robin Montgomery Williams. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Mercy
Your voice calls to me on a troubled sea;
I am not alone, though darkness covers me.
By my choice I have wandered far from home.
Now I am lost and fear Your mercy too far gone.
I am at the end; there is nothing left.
I am looking, Lord, outside of myself.
Father, I long to see Your face!
Hear Your voice, feel Your embrace!
Almighty God, I have sinned against You!
I am SO unworthy, but You already knew.
Though my eyes cannot see and my ears cannot hear
With deep compassion You draw so near,
Following me out of the garden gate
My Shepherd looks for me; my Father waits
Full of mercy, abounding in love,
My faithful Friend rises from above,
Calling me back, pulling me in.
Your love ever the same though I am covered in sin.
My Lord, my God, so worthy of my praise
I will sing of Your mercy for all of my days!
--Copyright 2007 by Robin Montgomery Williams. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Knowing
God is my Creator.
He made me…and He knows all that I am.
He knows about my fear and my lack of trust.
He knows about my selfishness, my pride, my anger…
He knows the resentment I feel at not having everything my way.
He knows of my disobedience…and my denial.
He has seen the bad in me…He knows the worst.
But looking past the ugliness of my sin, He knows my need.
God is my provider.
He knows the great need I have for love and forgiveness.
He understands my desire for complete acceptance.
Good or bad…happy or sad… faithful or disobedient,
He knows I need His love.
God is my Creator; God is my Provider.
He knows al that I am…and He knows all that I can be.
Seeing my need, He sent His only Son to die for my sins.
Why would He do this for me, knowing me as He does?
God is my Creator; God is my Provider.
Through the blood of Jesus, I am His child and He is my Father.
I AM HIS…and He wants me to know that HE IS MINE.
If I will just choose Him…If I will believe
NOTHING can take His love away from me…He made sure of it!
There is NO GREATER LOVE than the love He has for me.
KNOWING that love and KNOWING what it means for me…
How could I not love Him back?
Teach me, Father, how to love…show me…LOVE ME.
--Copyright 2007 by Robin Montgomery Williams. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
"The Holy thing to be born of you shall be called the Son of God."
(Luke 1:36)
Born Again
Once again the Lord God Almighty
Steps from Heaven
To enter a world that does not know Him.
Because He loves me, He hears my cry;
His wings shelter me, for I have spoken His name.
Highly favored and overshadowed by His Spirit,
My God is with me and I can never be the same.
So plain...so ordinary...obscure among peers,
Yet anointed by the touch of the one and only King.
Royalty reigns now deep within my womb.
Humbled, I yearn to give myself to this "Holy Thing."
Closer than my breath, The Life lives inside
A vessel full and struggling to give birth.
No longer a slave but a child of the Most High!
O Father! Break the chains that bind me to this earth!
Through the pain of my labor, I will trust in Hope.
Spirit gives birth to Spirit; may this flesh be dead.
You alone are God...My Lord...My Savior!
May it be done unto me as You have said...
--Robin Montgomery Williams
December 8, 2007
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