Enlightenment
A prayer prayed for enlightenment bears with it so much more
Than most who make this vital prayer are often looking for
It carries obligation to observe those things one learns
As vital to salvation with its path of many turns
For though it's straight and narrow in its course to heaven's home
The Light we're asked to follow in this darkened world we roam
Will lead us where we're needed most to share God's Light with men
Who still have not a knowledge of the depth and guilt of sin
That holds them in its clutches in the darkness of the past
That keeps them from embracing joy when on the Lord they cast
Their trust upon His promises if shared with them through us
Who have that true enlightenment for which we ask in trust
But many who accept that trust know not what they have done
Know not the obligation they've accepted from God's Son
Assuming they have but to live embracing all they've learned
Without the will to live the Light for which their hearts have yearned
For living is the reason God enlightens us at all
To carry forth His message to the world til heavens fall
Upon us at our Lord's return to take His children home
To live in those bright mansions where the saints will never roam
And until then if faithful those who really want to know
The meaning of the Christian walk and where He'd have us go
Will like their Lord and Saviour bear the Light of Truth to them
That they have by His mighty grace received in faith from Him
Because to them like Jesus there's no greater living joy
Than to be used by Him Who said He wanted to employ
His children as ambassadors to share both broad and wide
The message of salvation that the devil cannot hide
Because when we're converted full abandoned to the Lord
We look not on the things of earth to be by us adored
But on each precious blessing as a gift through which to share
The Truth that touches others when they see how much we care
By living that enlightenment we prayed for at the first
To feed the lost and hungry as we seek to wet their thirst
With drafts of living water from that never ending well
God shares with those most faithful to the Truth they have to tell
Isaiah 58:1-14; Matthew 28:18-20
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