A Psong in the Desert

That is right… a Psong… Are you the type of person that seems to constantly be tested. Does it seem like every where you turn you are walking through a refiners fire? Do you feel as if you are a block of marble and the blows from the Master Artist’s chisel are beginning to really hurt? I know exactly how you feel.

Have you ever had your kid, young as they may be, start to get in trouble for things on a grandiose level, only after some time reflecting, you discover that are exactly you, but in an “adult” controlled way? It is real tough when it comes to the refiners fire. You feel like your hung out to dry in the desert with no hope. Out there all alone in a dry and waterless land.

I wrote a song back when I was younger (a lot younger), actually I put Psalms 63 to a song (hence A Psong in the Desert) when I was in a real tough situation. Funny thing is… we are always in a tough situation, or so it seems. It is all part of our consistent upward growth. You see, we can’t just be left as we are, with all my ailments and destructive idiosyncrasies, we are so much more than that. We have a fuller life waiting to be lived. So when things our life start surfacing that are unpleasant there is usually only one thing to do… deal with it. This is usually the point when we feel like we are “in the desert”… when we have some dross brought to the surface and we have to deal with it. It is not fun. At times it seems like we are hanging on to a thin little root while dangling over the grand canyon. We feel like we are left out to dry, like dehydrated food. He doesn’t leave us there. It is in those times I constantly remind myself… “ I have seen you”… “and beheld your power and your glory”… and when I am in the desert, like it seems, I will live. I will live!
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A Psong in the Desert

Oh God eanestly I seek you
My soul thirsts just for you
My body, forever longs for you
In a dry and waterless land
I have seen you in the sanctuary

I beheld your power and your Glory
Because your love is better than life itself
I will praise you as long as I live.
Oh God desperately I need you
There is no other desire within me
But to live my life only for you
And to be the servant of my King

Oh God it seems you are so far away
I must return my soul to you
Then you will surly return to me
And I will see you as I once knew

I have seen you in the sanctuary
I beheld your power and your Glory
Because your love is all that my soul desires
I will praise you as long as I live.
And in your name will I lift up my hands forever
With singing lips my mouth will praise
I will worship my God and my King forever
And (when) in the desert I shall live.

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