Now & Not Yet

what we all want - what we all crave

to be wanted

    to be noticed

       to be known

Adoration

  Adulation

    Recognition

for who we are

the longing of every child’s heart

 

intense attention reserved for celebrities & royalty

       for who they are

 

hunger for significance,

  respect due the alpha

    honor shown nobility

all props given

   for who they are

 

but who am I

~

I am nothing less than weak and faithless - sinful, fallen, so unknown

falling, crawling, often wallowing in a strange land far from home

 

I would feast on wine and meat,

sitting at His feet basking in His presence and His love

 

and yet I linger here,

listening to the fear that all I have is all that I have known

~

 

still, I get to my feet, my heart fends off defeat,

with every step I grow in strength and speed

 

I throw off my excess need,

anything that would impede my journey to the place where I am known

 

faster, higher, deeper still, I am thrust toward His will

to look straight into the eyes of my true love

 

to know as I am fully known

 

to be adored and held by this One who knows me well

every fiber, every sinew, every hair

 

from my first breath to my last

every moment – present, past - held in scarred hands, the proof of His great love

 

who can fathom this great deep –

in the fiery cloud the heat purges all that stands between me and my love

 

in this moment I will rest

with this One who knows me best

lost in the rapture of His love

 

He is the King – am I His Queen

He is holy – I am clean

I am raised

   I am honored

     I am known

 

~

 

the vessel broken, now redeemed, whole, and filled with glory,

leans to show the fullness of the presence

GLORY BE

to the Father

and the Son

and the Spirit – three in one

Oh! the knowledge of that truth soon to be known

~

As we proceed through the gate praises echo,

throngs await the glory of His presence – Majesty!

 

they honor Him when they see His mighty work –

to make in me His dwelling place, fit for His majesty

 

Oh what glory! What delight!

Worship due Him at the sight of this once lost now found at home heart child

 

His handmaid, content I’d be – He calls me His bride-to-be

His treasure, the dear one of His heart

 

riches lavished on His child, and strength to withstand the wiles

of the one who would remind me of my fears

 

ever prowling – hungry, fierce

he takes delight in all my tears - until he sees You wipe them from my eyes

 

from Your presence he must fly for he knows, as now do I,

fear cannot withstand Your perfect love

 

~

 

So I begin another day

I pray for grace and strength to stay on the path I know will take me home

 

when I am taunted by my foes, my heart smiles – a small glow –

they don’t know who I know or Who knows me

 

if my enemies seem vast, the truth will be revealed at last

I have only one enemy, one foe

 

he who hates me tastes defeat,

he lies crushed at the feet of the Son of the Most High, whose hand I hold

 

Abba!   Father!   Husband!   King!

All these truths within me sing

 I am known

   I am known

     I am known

 

 

 

Sophia Hansen

One Response to “Now & Not Yet”

1. Charity Fontaine says:

   August 16, 2010 at 8:17 am

   Beautiful.

   Reply