Friday, August 16, 2013

Holy Sovereign, Savior, King

Only in mercy, yet only in purity…

Only in generosity, yet only in righteousness…

Only in infancy, yet only in maturity…

Only in forgiveness, yet only in judgment…

 Only in kindness, yet only in severity…

Only in work, yet only in play…

Only in peace, yet only in war…

Only in songs of praise, yet only in prayer…

Only in life, yet only in death…

 Only in abundance, yet only in want…

Only in fellowship, yet only in solitude…

Only in fear, yet only in hope…

Only in doubt, yet only in faith…

Only in sickness, yet only in new life…

Only in sleep, yet only in toil…

Only in blindness, yet only in sight…

 Only in joy, yet only in strength…

 Only in celebration, yet only in mourning…

 Only in corruption, yet only in purity…

 Only in thirst, yet only in streams…

 Only in pride, yet only in humility…

 Only in power, yet only in weakness…

 Only in hell, yet only in heaven…

 Only in peril, yet only in rescue…

 Only in brokenness, yet only in restoration…

 Only in lack, yet only in provision…

 Only in one, yet only in three…

are You, lowly, most high, Holy Sovereign, Savior, King.

 -a reflection on the Gloria: “..for thou only art holy; thou only art the Lord; thou only, O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art most high in the glory of God the Father. Amen.”