FIRST LOVE
When I was having a special relationship with someone about 10 years ago, the big struggle was making time with the person and with God. You see, before that relationship started, most of the evenings at home were spend on the Word and Prayer. I was always looking forward to go home. Being in the presence of God was my first love. It was an experience that I would not exchange for anything thing else in this world. Just like the psalmist wrote in Ps 84 "one day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere".
Soon I was spending more time with the person on the phone and in writing letters. Somehow, circumstances did not permit the relationship to carry on. The initial stage of letting go was difficult. Felt empty and aimless and was in the midst of preparing to go into full-time ministry. What a time to be enrolled in a Bible School?!! It was in the Bible School that I recaptured the presence of God again. God indeed has a way of restoring my First Love - I was asked to write a poem (later I "upgrade" it into a song) on my experience on the theme was "To Know Him and To Make Him Known" as a contribution for the Bible School magazine. Not much effort and time needed as I wrote because it came from a heart that had returned to First Love…..
In Your Presence, Lord
I humbly fall
In reverence and in awe
In Your Presence, Lord
My fear disappears
When Your Peace appears
In Your Presence, Lord
I will praise You
For making life anew
In Your Presence, Lord
I will seek Your face
To receive abundant grace
In Your Presence, Lord
I will give my ear
To a voice so near
In Your Presence, Lord
Knowing Your will
Is always my fill
In Your Presence, Lord
I will intercede
According to Your heartbeat
In Your Presence, Lord
You are changing me
Into Your fullness and glory
In Your Presence, Lord
Is always, always new
When I come before You
