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Linger a While...

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Walk with me

In the cool of the evening,

Be My delight.

Walk with Me. Talk with Me.

Choose Me tonight.

I am yearning and aching

To meet with you.

Lean on Me,

And I will see you through.


My presence is the freshest dew.

It washes clean

And restores your view.

Wait upon Me.

Your time won’t be wasted.

Your strength is renewed.

My goodness tasted.


Is there anything to Me

That can compare?

Lay down your distractions.

Lay down your despair.

Do you think I’m a God

Who doesn’t care?

I am the One

Who numbers your hair.


When I come to meet you,

Will you be there?

Or will I sit waiting

By an empty chair?


Why do you hold your burdens so tight?

I’m right here to take them.

This isn’t your fight.

I died in order to make things right.

So come with your hangups,

Your worries. Your fears.

Come with your hurts

From years upon years.

Come with your baggage.

I’ll help you unload.

You won’t be sorry you took

The unhurried road.


In lingering, you will enter My rest.

At My feet you will find

The portion that’s best.

In tender whispers

You’ll hear My call.

Off laden shoulders,

Your worries shall fall.


In quiet trust

Will your strength come.

My power flows

When we are one.

Be still in My presence

And know I am God.

I’ll lead to green pastures

And make your path broad.


You will find…

The more that you sit,

For walking and running

You shall become fit.

It doesn’t make sense

In the natural mind,

That to sit and be still

Equips you to fly.


And waiting upon Me,

Prepares to soar high.

But My ways are not

Of the earthly sort.

My thoughts are much higher

When yours fall short.


So sit down beside Me

And take a long drink.

Into My depths

Let your spirit sink.


My water is refreshing,

So bubbly, so new,

That it wells up inside you

And starts to spew.

The dry places inside you

Will become puddles of grace.

When you slow down in My presence

From life’s busy race.


Lift up your eyes

And look all around,

As My rivers bubble out of you

To water hard ground.

What once was barren

Will spring into bloom,

If for tarrying with Me

And rest

You’ll make room.


My river keeps flowing.

You won’t thirst again.

This all comes from lingering,

So let us begin.


-A love letter from Jesus




 

From an experience written in the blog post Waiting For the Dew Point


-Scribed by Deborah Valentine



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