Before your father and mother conceived You
I conceived you
You were with me in my heart, my very imagination and my mind
I kissed you with my breath in your mother's womb
I sealed you to be mine forever before the foundations of the earth
I marked you with the Spirit
You didn't choose me but I chose you to be mine forever
Simply because I made you with love
I am the very breath in your lungs
The blood that flows through your veins
I have hemmed you and surrounded you within and everywhere with my love
You cannot escape my presence
I know your wanderings, and I know where you hide
My love is present with you in the deepest pit of your despair and disappointment
And I will not leave you there
But I have raised you from the pit to the power of my faithful and steady love
To proclaim and touch people with compassion and grace
As I touch you every day with my love to bring you life
My words chiselling your flesh into submission to my loving authority to reflect my love, truth and glory
Crucifying and denying self and enthroning Jesus to your rightful place in my heart as a King
to submit to You, my Bridegroom, my love
for you have captured my heart
Even grave couldn't hold You down
You have conquered the grave with your all-consuming love
You are waving the banner of love each moment in the grave of my heart
and reviving my heart with your all-consuming love
You are becoming my deep desire and joy
I long to behold you and to be held by you to be like you
And have You as my ultimate prize and reward
To sit with You in your presence, to drink deeply from your love and feast with you
In the secret place where it's dark and unknown
But that's where You are bringing life into the darkness
filling the emptiness with life
and building an Eden with streams of living water
Resurrecting to new life everything You touch- every wound, every scar that none can touch
A home- a sanctuary- a dwelling place
where you and I are one
until only You remain
Consuming and burning
Until you see yourself in me
Even death cannot sting me
Its power is dead as my sin
for you swallowed death with your love to bring me home safely into eternity
Your Spirit pursues me passionately and beckons me unceasingly to - Come
You have won my heart with your love
and your Bride joins in the melody and responds- Come
Inviting me to a beautiful love song that will echo into eternity
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