James at Home

Eating and drinking are a part of life. Yet to stay in sin isn’t. So, my mind and soul need freedom to sing. Yet while I walk and eat my fill many go hungry and wait to find sustenance. In life all who wait on me will continue to live, says the Lord. Yet while I care for them, I also dream of a moment in time when you bear fruit for other people to eat too. I eat so you can too. Is that fair? Or I am so you are, also is that fair too? Yes. Can I show you my heart that you might live? I carry with me a voice of a cry that will deafen any who hear. I call out in the desert all who listen will die a death of grim proportions. Will you listen to me? I take a joy that remains. After I speak there is fruit. Can I show you? In you is life and more life, and in me is death of the cross of Christ. Is that fair? So, I wait for your call to seek the lost at any cost and be afraid of only me.

I took my father and mother home to the Lord in prayer I took my family there And as I stood at the door and knocked, he opened it to me I asked a question that made me think I asked a question that made me want I asked what would it be for me to see I asked if I could first see the love and then could it be I asked if I could be that to them I asked if I could ask of thee Could I ask that I am not alone with thee But I heard a response, “come and see, I have made a way for thee, To hear my voice and be in my place of suffering” It is in this that I see That while I want what is not mine to give There is freedom and joy in suffering.

Away all you sinner and saints I’ve got life to live in Him And in time of need all I have is a friend in Him In a place called sin I live in, I find people dead Yet in a place called home I also am aware of me in need of love So I want only him in me And I seek a purposeful meaning to life yet fail And so I wait in longing for a day where I am free

I look at my heart today to notice you forgive me I looked for sin in its crevice and found none Now waiting in the middle, you are ready to forgive me I see I am not a lost soul I see I am found in your embrace I see my arm is not dead at my side I see I have an outstretched hand ready to serve So I wait So I long for you So it comes to mind my sin and you forgive my wrong thinking So I lay it all down here at your feet I hold only to the cross I lay down every breath Cos I’m gone to the house of God to worship Him

  I take my place above the wave There I find my place and there it will stay High and lifted up, seated you are risen High and exulted, there you send up wings to carry me home to you Lord you are worthy of praise So, I wait on you my King as a servant waits for an answer Do you love me more than these? I hear you say Do you love me as I love you? I accept you carry a heavy load, and you deem me able to forgive but my word remains I am He who saves you from trial I carry you in the storm I want for your waste to be removed And your faith to increase Cos my love is enough for you.

I looked at him in the middle of my time today before his loving face It took my gaze, and I made him proud of me Yet as I waited my heart grew dim and I gave way to sin Yet he never forsook his promise to be with me And my hope to heal my heart fell away Yet I hear him saying, I alone can heal a heart that grows cold and dim Yet he waits for me and I carry my heavy heart to his hand And he rests with intent of caring for my love So beaten, broken and bruised he took me in Beaten and sore, my wound he healed Shown love from the spotless lamb of God He showed me I care for you He showed me love   Photo by   Bill Fairs   on   Unsplash

We are believers in one God, Jesus and by his faith we are healed, restored and given freedom and while we watch many fall at sin, many crumble at graceless living, many come to meet their demise at graceless lifestyles, we are dead in our love for God to heal our land. Yet in Christ we are overcomers. In him we are free to stay rooted, in him we are united. So, waiting and being open to hear my direction is key, cos in me is the key to life itself, love not your own life but lay it down at the feet of him who stays seated on the throne. So, then he may lift you up.

Take your marks, set, go Your off on an adventure Stead you go around the track Steady you form a pattern well sort after Steady the flow and ready to change stride To achieve all that God is calling you to So my heart aches for you to come Like a runner who gains pace I run after you Like a song sung loud and proud I come after you So my hopes are you will take me with you Yet you come and stand where you do And make me your son in him who died for me So I make a place for you at the throne of my heart

  I was alive at the beginning and free to serve The Lord said I was alive in the Lord’s words Yet I fell to comparison and greed Yet my heart grew dim I was aware of him With a shout I cried out “Free me from this prison of sin” So, he laid it all down before him He gave it a name and crushed it before it could speak So, I rested at the understanding my name means little And I carry with me a gift that I am free So, I wait and see you Lord are free too To place me at the midst of me So, while I am he who understands thy word I hunger for it like gold and silver Like pure gold is valuable and silver useful for many I value your word to carry me through the storm I value you as a child values honey As a kid loves sweets So, I value you to taste Father who alone cares for us As a child you carry me to you   Photo by   Michelle McCormick  on   Unsplash