Monday, November 17, 2014

You Fill Me


You fill me
I find it's You who infinitely satisfies me fully,
who fuels and feeds my fire,
suppressing my flesh that so foolishly feasts on the foul fruits
that sometimes thrill me
but never fill me.
You surpass my finite mind that's flooded with 
frivolous facts, false fantasies and fruitless fiction.
Sating my starving soul,
going past fleeting infatuation to stirring up a passion
so that what I finally feel on the inside
is sheer satisfaction.

In fact, it's the lack
of love that lurked in my lonely unlucky past
that left me longing for something more than immoral lust.
I was looking for someone other than the normal loser 
whose mutterings were mere moralizing meanderings 
that never moved me. 
But more, a linguist whose lips could speak unlimited love languages 
to my languishing soul.
And that was You, immortal Lord.
You speak from your wealth of wisdom 
words that work to weave meaning and worth
into the worst of my situations. And like a wordsmith 
you spoke straight to my distracted and distraught heart so
I stopped straining to maintain a vain wish
that what I aimed and waited for couldn't be attained.
Because all of that actually abounds in You.

When your loving arms surround me 
it confounds the hurt and harm that has so marked me, 
countering the hissing lies of Satan that have hounded me
and fills my much too strong-willed, restless heart, 
now stilled and at rest from the wrestling match
between my past and Your promises.

My being abused used to trap me into utilizing the poor excuse
that others want to use me, and inevitably will bruise me,
But you so aptly infuse in me the beautiful and absolute truth 
that you are One in whom I can truly trust. 
So I refuse to maintain mumbling that mind-numbing mantra
stating maybe I was just meant to remain 
In an empty, sorry state of muted solitude.
I revel in the reality that in my Father's love 
I am found refreshingly fulfilled.
my famished heart feasting on His fathomless, fascinating fellowship.
It's You who fills me.
Finally. Fully. And forever.