All I Want to Show~A Birthday Poem

 Another year has passed behind

My dusty feet into the sunset sky,

And I pause from walking further on

To gaze back on days forever gone.

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And the question echos in my mind:

What have I to show for all the steps I've climbed?

For all the days I've lived this past year?

For all the sorrows bathed in bitter tears?

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What have I to hold on to from where I've come?

From what I've learned; from all I've done?

For the joy and sadness mingling in my heart?

What have I to show as a new year starts?

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And I realize afresh with new born eyes

That all I have to show is Christ.

In all the days that I passed through

A million ways God whispered "I love you"

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He used the sorrows, the joys, the sin

To point my eyes back to Him

He stood strong when I was weak

When I was lost, He came to seek

My trembling, broken, sinful soul

He raised me up and makes me whole 

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When I was swept in swirling waves

Christ reached out His wounded hands to save

When I thought hope was almost lost

My Savior showed me, my sins cost

His nail-pierced hands outstretched in love

As grace streamed down to me from above

To cleanse away my filth and shame

To call me by His precious name

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He bore the wrath reserved for me

He took my cup and set me free

He clothed me with His righteousness

And sealed me in His faithfulness

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He did what I could never do

He buried my flesh with Him in the tomb

Then His Father joyfully displayed

His satisfaction  in raising His Son from the grave.

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By the Spirit's power, I am raised up with Him

And brought near in Christ---cleansed from my sin.

A million ways and more He shows,

His faithful love to me on life's road.

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As thirty years have passed me by

I see its been given to show me Christ

And now with joy, I press on the way

And all I want to show each day

Is the beauty of Christ shining from the cross

One glimpse of His glory turns all else to loss

Compared to the surpassing worth of knowing Christ

The King of my Soul, The Lord of my life.

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