For the director of music. A psalm of
Harry
Lord my God,
you deserve all of my thanks and praise
For you are
the God who sees me
You are the
God who knows me
And you are
the God who loves me
Searching
the world for anything that could fulfil my longings
Has only
left me disappointed and destitute
Like a deer
panting for streams of water
And finding
nothing to quench that thirst
From a young
age I sought after satisfaction
Many a time
I thought I had found what I sought after
And was
crushed and left brokenhearted
Was I wrong
to be seeking such things?
If only I
had known that my search was futile
At least as
long as I searched here below
My eyes were
fixed on things temporal
And not on
things eternal
But Lord,
your Spirit turned my gaze upward
And assured
me that my search for solid joys
Was not a
chasing after the wind
But was a
search that could only be fulfilled in you
For who else
can know me like you know me?
Who else
searches my heart like you do,
And yet
loves me despite all my iniquities and wrongs?
Is there anyone
like you?
Who else has
been with me even before the time of my birth?
Who else has
seen me in my simplest form
When I knew
nothing, saw nothing, felt nothing?
You knew me
before I existed at all
What am I
that you would even be mindful of me?
Why should
you even care for me?
I am but a
tiny speck in the fabric of the universe
A lowly and
insignificant man in the universal scheme
Life for me
is but a breath
But you are
the one that always was, always is and ever will be
You are the
one that gave me my first breath
And you are
the one that sustains me till my last
Why is it
that the God of all the earth
Would care
to know my name
And even
live as a lowly human to enact empathy
For one so
useless as I?
What mind
can fathom the works of your hands?
What heart
can perceive the thoughts of the Lord?
They are
beyond all imagination
Beyond
anything within human reason
Lord, in all
of life’s mysteries
You have
provided for me an anchor for my soul
Steadying me
when my sails are caught by furious squalls
That threaten
to steal me away
Lord, though
my heart may at times waver
I know that
in you my hope is firm and secure
And that you
are all I need
For life,
for health, and safety
Search me
Lord and know my heart
Test me and
know my anxious thoughts
See if there
is any offensive way in me
And lead me
in the way everlasting
