Did you find HIM, or did you let
present circumstances crowd Him out?
He was looking for YOU you know,
when He came so long ago
to that tiny manger in Bethlehem.
He was looking for you when the Star
shown so brightly in the sky
leading the wise men to the place where He lay-
drawing them oh so nigh.
He was looking for you, when the Heavenly Choir of Angels burst into the open with
rapturous and melodious song sent to
bring Good News to inspire.
He was looking for you, when at age twelve
in the temple He questioned the rabbi's and into the Word, making them delve.
In a carpenters shop He would work and sing
Crafting wood into useful things. With skillful hands and eye bringing out the beauty that deep within the wood did lie. Full of pitch and claimed to be no good, in these pieces their grace and beauty He would find...All the while, YOU were on His mind!
When He turned the water into wine
at the wedding, He was saying, "You will find,
that the end will be sweeter than the start, so do not fear..." for He is here with you, just look for Him and see...but you must look with your heart.
When the widow's son, the one from Nain.
was in a coffin prematurely lain-
He was there, to mend her broken heart
bring life into a hopeless situation, and
give a brand new start.
HE is here with you now-
will you open up and allow
Him to wipe away your tears, fears and pain,
to bring you life and hope again?
When He washed their feet in
that upper room,
He knew that very soon
one of those He loved,
would be shoved by things
left unchecked and so
his life would be wrecked, and yet
He loved him to the end.
As He faced His accusers and abusers, manipulators and instigators, He
looked with eyes that saw you and me,
down through the portals of eternity,
knowing that we were both at once to blame and also the ones who had been put to shame...
and yet HE came all the same!
Looking for me and YOU.
39 lashes and His blood ran RED, and
each drop said, "I LOVE YOU."
39 lashes-intense pain, and
His blood proclaimed,
"your sickness I bore,
so it can have dominion no more."
And HE was looking for you.
A walk up a long, lonely hill, with
humanity jeering and scoffing still
His heart set on Eternity, He had vowed to His Father not mine, but Thy Will,
and He looked for you.
Death sentence given, nails driven,
More Blood, for me and you shed.
A crown of thorns upon His Head...
Hung betwixt and between two worlds
with only one seen, and He cried
"It is finished," before He died, all the while Looking at the Joy set before Him...
He was looking for YOU.
This Christmas He came,
to a world not very tame,
laying in ruins of its own
making and shame.
He came looking for YOU.
He comes again and again,
with Love in His eyes, and Light
to send all the darkness packing,
to ease the pain that's wracking
bodies stressed and strained.
He comes looking for You.
He comes calling YOUR name.
Life with Christ will never be the same.
There is so much to lose, and a lot to gain!
Let go of your past- failures or not,
receive a Life that cannot be bought.
Success is empty when you lose in the end, Eternity without family, health, peace and friend.
Don't miss Him like those who looked
in all the wrong places and faces and things,
expecting a Palace and earthly King,
instead of The Lord, Master of the
Universe and Ruler over everything!
He's looking for YOU
to look and see...
Yes, HE IS EVERYTHING,
but maybe not what or how
You thought He would be!
Jeremiah 29:13 Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require Me [as a vital necessity] and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart. (Amplified and BBE)
© NEM 12-26-11
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This is so beautiful and powerful, my friend! Thank you for being so sensitive and
yielded to the Holy SpiritWe His Body and ALL of humanity are ever on His mind, in
His thoughts. The more we behold Him in the awesomeness of Who He is and His
boundless Love and mercy, the more He can “look through our eyes” so we see the world
as He sees it. His are the eyes with which we must see our world and we have to embrace
HIS thoughts towards both His Body, the Church, and those who are yet without Him… (
And this poem SO demonstrates His longings, His desires, His heart, the way HE views
humanity!) Our natural eyes, even with all our modern technology that ets us see
microscopically or into the galaxies and universes beyond, can never see Him or the
hearts of man. But we HAVE the mind of Christ and His Love IS shed abroad in our
hearts! And He, Christ IN us IS our confident expectation of His Glory, the
manifestation of the wonder of Who He is. God help us to more and more, as the
Scripture you gave, seek HIM with all our hearts and yield to Holy Spirit step by step,
decision by decision, and choose Spirit over flesh.
The best of times and the worst of times in the history of man, I believe, are at our
doorstep. Let us choose LIFE: JESUS! and Blessing, not just for ourselves, but for His
Glory that multitudes may see Him in and through us and be saved, healed, delivered,
fall in love with Him and fulfill the destinies God has planned for them! It’s all about
HIM and the desires of His heart being fulfilled! His desire,. His blood, was shed for
ALL to have the opportunity to be saved and let God’s dreams for them to come to pass!!
Earth is the only place we can “prove” our love for Him. It will be easy in Heaven to
express it. I remember the powerful song “Ppeople need the Lord.” May we never forget
we too were once lost and in desperate need. Someone let Him use them to help draw us
to the reality of our Jesus!!
2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
Heb 12:2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that
was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Psa 40:5 Many, O Lord my God, are the wonderful works which You have done, and Your thoughts toward us; no one can compare with You! If I should declare and speak of them, they are too many to be numbered.
Psa 139:17 How precious and weighty also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast
is the sum of them! [Psalms 40:5]
Psa 139:18 If I could count them, they would be more in number than the sand. When I
awoke, [could I count to the end] I would still be with You.
Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts
and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.
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