our beloved Father

our beloved Father
please come down and meet us
we are waiting on Your touch

open up the heavens
shower down Your presence
we respond to Your great love

we won't be satisfied with anything ordinary
we won't be satisfied at all

open up the sky
fall down like rain
we don't want blessings
we want You

open up the sky
fall down like fire
we don't want anything but You
- open up the sky/deluge

the words of this song really hit me this morning

how often do we truly pray for His presence rather than His "presents,"
to be able to say as we sit at His feet that we're there solely as a result of a deep longing to be close to Him, to breathe in His fragrance, to revel simply in His companionship, rather than to bring forth a list of petitions, wherever they may range from a relentlessly itching mosquito bite to a friend's salvation.

how truly intimate and special would it be to tell Him, our beloved Father, "i don't want blessings, i want You," and to mean it without a hint of a hidden agenda, without a trace of any shrouded conception of saving up good graces to expedite future pleas.

the other part of this song that really hit me this morning was the line
"we respond to Your great love"
we respond.
we respond.
yesterday at youth we touched upon whether or not someone would go to heaven if they said they believed in God but then didn't live for Him. my thoughts on this have always been that to be saved, according to romans 10:9, you gotta confess with your mouth and believe in your heart. it's not a one part thing, it's not just confess with your mouth, period. you need that second part, believe, and hearts are not very good liars, so if you truly have that part down, and you believe in this great love, you can't help but respond with your life. at this point, i'd always be stuck for that last concretely analogous piece to complete my point, but i finally got it:

our lives as Christians are but an echo; once His love is sounded in our life, we can't help but respond with our life.

the Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
lamentations 3:25 (NKJV)