This is Who You Are

Your voice is peace to me.
Though You speak war against my sin
Though You thunder amid my complacent rest
Your voice shakes the kingdom within
So that what is unshakeable, the best
May remain.

Let me never resist the voice
That calls me out of the fall
Let me submit to the conquering joys
Of knowing You as All in All.

Your hands are love to me.
Though You strike me down again
Though Aslan's claws tear at my heart
You rip the scales away through pain
And the more I am broken apart
The more I am loved.

I'll give myself to these loving hands
Please love me as You will
Lead my bloodied soul from Pharaoh's land
And hold me closer still.

Your Words are life to me.
Though they cry out for my death
Though they ruin my pride
You alone have the Words of life
And though I must die
Where else can I go?

The Words of the Amen, faithful and true
Are always "Yes!"--every promise kept.
Though every day I die for You
In Your life, every want is met.

Your feet are beautiful to me.
Though You trample my boasts
Though You rob all of my dignity
Under Your feet, plundered of my strength
Relinquished to Your Authority
I am set free.

Let me be brought low if You can be praised
Be proved true, and me a liar
If the good news of grace undeserved
And peace with God can be lifted higher.

This is the voice that obeyed the Father's commands
And spoke to bring down walls I had built.
These are the hands that submitted to nails meant for me
And carried me to where I would never know guilt.
This is the Word made flesh to bear my sorrows
Accepting the weight of my shame
These are the feet that ran to meet me a long way off
And the steps of the Bridegroom when He comes again.

This is who You are.  This is the God I trust beyond my understanding and past my will.  This is the Husband I return to when Baal is defeated.  Though You come after me like a Lion, like a Thief bent on stealing my life away, let me always look up and see You on the cross.  The Heart that bled for me while I was His enemy can be trusted--even when He appears to be my enemy, and it is I whose heart must bleed.