We Can Rest in Our Savior's Arms

Do you feel, as I do, that today more than ever, we yearn for those times when we have felt safe 

in the arms of our Savior and Friend.

We live in such a chaotic world that much of the time, we truly do need the rest and quiet, and healing that comes only within those arms.

Our world is noisy and confusing

so we look to find a resting place.

And sometimes in our pain or sorrow - we cry out, 

and reach out, to touch our Father’s face.

In the stillness of the night He hears me calling.

In the softness of the morn it's still the same.

But in the solitary places He is waiting

for my heart to call upon his name.

When I come into the lonely place of meeting

then, in His words, God’s love and grace I see.

When I say,

“please make your will be done in my life,”

comfort flows

from God’s great heart to me.

He’s there in our lonely places. He’s there in our busy places. He’s there in our solitary places. He’s there always, when we seek Him.

Image in the glass

 

It’s so hard to see the image that the ONE who made me saw while fashioning my picture in His mind.

 It’s hard to see His plans for me, His perfect will displayed, when I look in memory’s mirror, and I find 

a messy tarnished drawing that is filling up the space,
as sin’s dark, blotted shadows aim to cover up my face
and show in me the likeness of our sinful human race. 

The image there can’t show God’s love –

it overlooks His grace. 

But,  

A new and heavenly mirror shines
since God paid sin’s penalty. 

And as I look into that glass a different view I see.
The dark and blotted shadows 
have been cast into the sea.

And in that glass

I find that God 
has taken them from me.

Now, I faintly see the picture that the GOD who made me saw
 as HE fashioned my own features in His mind. 

And in that heavenly mirror,
His covering love for me
became the only image that I see.

And His grateful child is all I want to be.

Diane Sept 2021