Preparation
How great a preparation must be made in these last days
From which we are distracted in so many many ways
For he who knows the future and what soon to him will come
Knows best how to distract us and from where to draw us from
For if he can entice us with the trappings of this world
And all the other vices that upon us he has hurled
Then we've no time for Jesus and the study of His Word
Wherein we find our safety where His Spirit can be heard
And if he can distract us even with the best of things
With doing good for others and the pleasure that it brings
Then doing good for others is what he'll press us to do
If that will keep us busy and obstruct our vision too
The vision from the morning when we spend our time with God
Where spending time together gives us grace that we might trod
The day with cause of purpose to be more and more like Him
Who spent His early mornings with His Father just like them
Who long to be like Jesus in the things they say and do
Reflective of His presence to the ones He brings them to
Who need His reassurance that our God is always here
And always softly waiting with a tender heart and ear
To catch those morning teardrops when we share our hearts in prayer
And trust no matter what has been His love is waiting there
To share with us His passion to make all things bright and new
And wipe away the painful past of all that we've been through
To have that preparation that His grace alone can give
That through the faith He's given us we too like Him might live
Unshackled by the burdens that encumber other men
Who focus not on Jesus but the want and ways of sin
And in that preparation when we do what Christ has done
In rising in the morning far before the morning sun
Before the world distracts us with its cares to meet the day
We find that grace that meets us to prepare us for God's Way
Where we will not be burdened neither shackled by our sin
But will see every moment as a moment to begin
A greater preparation for what God will bring us through
In victory He's promised that by grace He'll bring us to
Revelation 12:10-17; Isaiah 58:5-11