Chasing Mount Zion

This is from a few months ago. Not the most comprehensive post, but my thoughts on the things that matter to God.


Do you feel the laughter lilting on the wind?
Or the twinkle in His sunrise eyes,
As He whispers to the world good morning again,
Patient as He ever is in the wake of our chaos
Spent running and screaming through the night
After every phantom angel that would strike
Our fancy

Yet in the dawn the one to welcome us,
gentle as He always is, will forever be
The God I call Beloved.

You've chased so many things, little things,
That after all this time you've forgotten that
The burning in your heart is for Him.

As you walk to work to fight another day,
That moment you forgot about-

You know the one, where the sun shone
Brightly through summer leaves and
The wind breathed lightly on your face
As if to wish you good morning-

That moment that for a split second
Made your heart tug towards something
So deep that words could never express it;
It was a whisper from the most perfect lover.

But you were running late and you'd be nothing
Without this job.
So you brushed it off as always,
And let the finite control you for the rest of your day.

Because someone or everyone fed you the lie
That your identity relies on what you can control.
And your worth has a dollar value,
Whether salary or insurance, or brand name clothes.

Afraid of the God of Fire and Glory,
The one who shook mountains,
We created a god of measured value,
Gold, one whom we could touch, and mold
To our likeness, and dared to name that
As the God of our ransom.

We took the man with Eyes of fire and a story
So pure it was worth giving Him everything;
And we tamed Him.
Made Him look like the world,
Like what we were used to seeing.

We have deceived ourselves into believing
That the Name of Jesus was useful to give status
Or a reason to boast in all we could do.
That we could use our abilities to mold The Holy of Holies
into a form we could control,
Because it's less frightening than walking
Up the mountain to meet with Him,
To walk in His presence,
Which is all He's really ever wanted.

"For you have not come to what may be touched,
A blazing fire and darkness, and gloom and tempest....
But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city
Of the Living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem,
And to Innumerable Angels in festal gathering...
Therefore let us be grateful for receiving
A kingdom that cannot be shaken,
And let us offer to  God acceptable worship,
With reverence and awe;
For our God is a Consuming Fire."--Hebrews 12:18, 22, 28-29

In light of such inheritance, why would we give up
Him to whom this life belongs?
He is both beautiful and Glorious,
And His call is more gorgeous than all this world could offer.

Listen to His whisper in the grace of a new morning,
And let the deepest parts of your soul call out
To the Depths of His presence.

It's what you were Made For anyway.