Rapture Song Revisited

Just in case you're new to this blog, I wanted to re-post my original post, the reason that my blog is called what it is. This is a poem/song that the Lord spoke to me a while ago, reminding me that he is coming soon, and I need to be ready. This is both sobering, and exciting! It is why I live the way I do, why I prioritize the way I do, why I can get up every morning. I actually do have a melody for it too, but I haven't gotten around writing it all down. Maybe next year... in Jerusalem...

Rapture's Song

May I be convicted
May my guilt be lifted
May your mercy and your faithfulness abide.
Will you crucify me
Let it purify me
That I may become the righteousness of Christ

May your love root deeply
That it may flow freely
As your Spirit finds a home in me my King
Won't you come and hide me
And ever guide me
As I sing beneath the shadow of your wing...

Someday I'll see you coming in the air
And I'll rise with all the saints to meet you there
When I hear the trumpet blast
And when finally at last your promised face I'll see
Your beauty and your grace will testify
That you have come to gather up your bride
May my hope and faith be true
And my love only for you
For you are Lord for all eternity

May you find me waiting
And anticipating
May my faith and life be incense Lord, to you
may I store up treasure
May it give you pleasure
Let me offer up the crowns I earn to you

Someday I'll see you coming in the air
And I'll rise with all the saints to meet you there
When I hear the trumpet blast
And when finally at last your promised face I'll see
Your beauty and your grace will testify
That you have come to gather up your bride
May my hope and faith be true
And my love only for you
For you are Lord for all eternity

And whether this life takes me
And my eyes shut here at last
Or I live to see the day you come
With a shout and trumpet blast
I know that you are truth and life
The beginning and the end
The Holy One, the great I AM
And on this I will depend

Someday I'll see you coming in the air
And I'll rise with all the saints to meet you there
When I hear the trumpet blast
And when finally at last your promised face I'll see
Your beauty and your grace will testify
That you have come to gather up your bride
May my hope and faith be true
And my love only for you
For you are Lord for all eternity