Most Holy One, words can never adequately describe my love for You. You have made my heart as big as the sky and filled it with love for You … and still, I feel like it wants to burst. My desire is to say “thank You” for all that You’ve given to me but my words seem so inadequate in describing how I feel. I want to hold You and hug You, but I feel like I’m grasping at air. I want to hear Your voice clearly, but the sounds of the world and it’s distractions sometimes drown You out. I need to dialogue with You and learn from Your wisdom, but I am too busy doing “things” so that I cannot stop to get quiet and listen to what You have to say. How many times have You helped me … escape turmoil in my life … find my way through a maze of possibilities in order to make a sound decision … giving me countless gifts that I do not deserve? There are too many to even try to count.
Your love for Your people is as large as the universe and as deep as the ocean. The light of Your love is brighter than even the sun and Your tenderness more comforting than a mother’s arms. You teach me the hard lessons of life through wisdom and a strong guiding hand. When I stray from the path You have set before me, You draw me back in love and keep Your eyes on me at all times. How can I ever say thanks often enough or show You more honestly my appreciation for all that You give and do for me. As in a courtship, where I give my time to the one of my affections, so must I give time to enhancing our relationship … and, as I learn to share my heart and feelings with my beloved, I must do the same with You. In the same way that special relationships are formed through time and sharing of intimate thoughts and feelings with others, so it must be with You.
I am so touched by Your limitless understanding, abundant patience and unqualified love. You cover my many failings and poor judgement with mercy, tenderness and long-suffering. When I cannot stand under the weight of my load, You prop me up … when I am confused, You point the way … when I am impoverished, You supply all of my needs … when I am destitute and lose hope, You are my possibilities and promise. There is none like You and I feel true compassion for those who have not yet found their way to You. I feel the sadness in Your heart that You feel when Your child falls away and ignores Your calling. So I guess that the best way to show You the depths of my love is to reach out my hand to help someone so that they can see the One who I know and give thanks for. And it’s in Jesus’ name I pray. AMEN!!
II Corinthians 9:15 Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift.