HEAVEN ‘CAN’T WAIT’

As sun fades on horizons’ west

I ponder how the day’s progressed

And wonder what tomorrow has in store

In many ways I find I’m blessed

In others find I’ve flunked the test

But always find I yearn for something more

I think of all our world can bring

New house, new car, new fancy thing

These things might satisfy me for a while

Then I look beyond this place

Unto that realm where pain’s erased

Unchaining my involuntary smile

What wonders loom at Heavens’ Gate?

I’d set off now, but have to wait

And do the tasks to which I’ve been assigned

But Father, could you fast-track me

’Cos Lord I really want to see

The awesomeness that’s sure to blow my mind?

What will I do when I get there?

Sit upon a golden chair

Or will I be too stunned and overwhelmed?

Will I ride about on horses back

Or take off from a gold tarmac

And soar with angels wings throughout the realm?

Will I have a brand new name

And Lord, will I still look the same?

I know my aches and niggles will be gone

As angels sing and trumpets blow

I know I’ll have a brand new glow

Reflections of your glory looked upon

When I join the heavenly host

Will I be sent to some outpost?

Could I hang around the throne room for a time

To gaze upon your awesome face

And sing about your awesome grace

That brought me here despite my earthly grime?

  

Will I be a messenger

A fast angelic courier

Surfing through the stars at speeds untold?

Or will the notes I play expand

In a long haired angels rockin’ band

Bringing vital sound to streets of gold?

Can we run around and kick a ball?

Do you have a sport and what’s it called?

I bet there’s no shame being on the losing team

Do runners up get a trophy too?

Do angels roar when goals go through?

Can you lose your voice in heaven when you scream?

If I’m there before that final day

When all our tears are washed away

And Jesus comes to end all misery

Will I join your army Lord

To smash the devil and his hordes

And bring about your finest victory?

For now, I’ll try not to complain

I’ll live my life where you still reign

And admit I have no clue without a fuss

For no ear has heard, nor eye perceived

Our earthly minds just can’t conceive

The wonders that you have in store for us

Power and Love

Who gave the sun its’ warmth and its’ light?

Whose will caused our planet to spin into night?

Who dressed the clouds in their grey and their white

And allotted their voice such a thunderous might?

Who laid out the oceans and gave them their girth?

Who scatters His lightning across all the earth?

Who takes away empires, gives others new birth?

Who can do all of this and yet still see my worth?

Who lifted the mightiest mountain range

Up into the sky, so imposing and strange?

Who sends forth the winds and who has arranged

Four life-giving seasons to ebb and to change?

Who spread out the lights in the nights’ starry sky?

Who feathered the Eagle and taught it to fly?

Who waters one place and leaves another one dry?

Who can do all of this and yet still hear my cry?

Whose voice thunders down with the mightiest roar?

Whose power can shake the whole earth to its’ core?

Whose splendor decrees that all angels adore?

Who gives us His all and has promised us more?

Whose presence commands that all evil shall flee?

Whose justice demands that for sin, there’s a fee?

Whose wisdom and love nailed that sin to a tree?

Who sent His own Son to recover deaths’ key?

Whose mighty hand picks me up when I’m down?

Whose mighty grace turned the lost into found?

Whose promise declares that I’m Heavenward bound?

My Father who says I’m a jewel in His crown.