Revealing

Here I stand again.
Forgot my only friend.
Saved from a life of sin,
I wandered back again.
Not things that used to be.
No more of that for me.
Yet You saw in me
I’m still not really free.
Look deep, I didn’t dare
Not that I didn’t care
Not knowing things were there.
Can’t see them lurking where
I kept You from treading,
Kept Light from dark-shedding.
Exposure I’m dreading
Upon pride it was bedding
I can do it on my own
Don’t need You to be shown
Gone too far – I am grown
Still I feel so alone
My friend, You draw me near
Always shifting my gears
My soul cries and You hear
Settling my fears
You are yearning
For my learning
My heart is slowly burning
Conscience just keeps churning
Kept this piece from You
It just cannot be true
This thing that’s stuck, it grew
It beat me black and blue.
No, I didn’t see
It simply couldn’t be
Not still here within me
Thought that I was free
Yet Truth is always true
And there was always You
You already knew
And now we’re breaking through
You didn’t leave me there
You knew, You loved, You cared
Caught up in Your love-dare
Laid my heart open bare.
Beginning all once more
Offered up my core
My face upon the floor
I need you more and more
You took it all for me
You set my spirit free
And I come humbly
Thanks for loving me
Though it was pain to see
Glad You remained in me
So now I thankfully
Come to honor Thee.