Deeper into your presence
Take me deeper into your presence where I see and am seen
And all my desires are made pure and holy and redeemed...
Then I shall see clearly the trueness of your word
And I can live surely on the message I have heard.
Uproot me and tramsplant me into your holy soil
So I can find my life in you annoint me with your oil
Graft me into the life of the living vine
That I may dwell foreve within your light divine.
Deeper into your presence, deeper into your heart
Deeper into your essence where you cause the veil to part.
And I shall be undone to disintegrate in awe
I shall cry holy holy holy to the Lord of all.
I'm such a surface dweller, I fear both depths and heights
I live beneath my priviledge and fail to set my sights
On revelling in glory, in basking in the light,
The beauty of his holiness and the power of his might.
I'm given greater blessedness than the saints of old
A full measure of His presence as the prophets have foretold.
Take me deeper into your presence, deeper into your heart
Deeper into the essence where you cause the veil to part.
Wonder of all wonders! Now all I ask or pray
Is already given to me by his providence today
All I need to appropriate his love and see his face
Is to intimately live with Him and learn his ways and grace..
Copyright 1994 Anthony Foster