Your Light Fills My Heart (8/20/24)

A psalm for my rescue.

Your light fills my heart, O Lord

For You’ve rescued me from death.

The devil gnawed at my flesh

Yet Your blade glode clean through his neck.

With cries like weeping monsters

And screams of wailing widows

I proclaim Your victory over demons

Who parade as if not minnows.

As the sons of God descend from heaven

To circle my desperate heart, I know

That my joyful stream of tears mirror

The river of love and power that flows.

Out from your mighty arm,

Out from your hilt of gold,

Out from the peace forged blade of the Hero.

Into this broken world,

Into this lost shalom,

Into this lustful body groaning to be cleansed in-ferno.

I know You, Lord;

Boldly claimed for Your Spirit’s temple is well kept.

I know You, O Lord;

In Your name, called so that I may be saved as I wept.

And as the trumpets blared I heard your voice

As the chorus of angels sang, I heard the clash of swords--

Spirits versus spirits, Salem against Sheol the void.

So my soul came to rest, in time, as the light I looked toward.

And in the end, I knew You--

My King, my Shield.

I kneel before you, Father;

Your Word I wield.

Amen.