What Cost the Morning
When rising in the morning for the day you have ahead
Is it among your first thoughts how your actions might be led
To lift another soldier who has fallen in the field
Or comfort one who's thinking that their fate with God is sealed
Is it to go off racing to achieve some earthly goal
To have your name with honor read upon some worldly roll
Or is it just to know that when your day on earth is done
Someone saw Him reflected from your time with God as one
Or is it just your purpose to survive without a cause
To live your life each moment without taking time to pause
Considering the future and the reason you are here
And why in your position you've survived another year
For in one of these options we will find ourselves to be
Attentive to the future or just lost in history
Aware there must be something God's in store for us to do
Or fatalistically just thinking maybe we'll go through
Another day not knowing if we'll see another night
Not knowing if there's any hope of seeing through the fight
The victory God's promised for the host of the redeemed
Because that most important time with God was not esteemed
As being fundamental to the reason we are here
When God can make His Person in His people crystal clear
While spending time together meditating in His Word
And listening not speaking when His Spirit can be heard
To give to us direction with His caveat of peace
Not worried for the future as we give Him full release
Abandoning our full control to what He'd have us be
As we reflect His will in us for other folks to see
And more than that to be made in the image of His Son
That He through us might also do the things that He has done
In healing lives once broken to reviving life anew
In those who still need time to see what God would have them do
To be prepared for glory not much longer to be seen
When Christ returns in splendor to receive the pure and clean
Who've washed their lives each morning in their time before the cross
Embracing their first thoughts with Him Who paid the greatest Cost
Psalm 55:16-23; 63:1-11
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