Father what does it take to really show <br />What wealth You give and graciously bestow <br />Upon the world so torn apart with dismay <br />with the plagues, the bomb, all in disarray. <br />Speak through me and relinquish their doubts <br />That You gave a Savior, whom our life is about. <br />Show them the world is nearing an end <br />That they be not caught in hell’s burning bend. <br /> <br />Father, I love You not just for Your Son <br />but for all the blessing of life once ransomed. <br />The life I have now is more than flesh <br />For now I’m filled with Jesus, so refreshed. <br />I’m satisfied Father for whatever the task <br />Whether I am in class, in the street I unmask. <br />These times are so great to be called Your child <br />for the world was never so complex and so wild. <br /> <br />What does it take for such men to see, <br />That all I am now I was never without thee. <br />I was shameful and wrong in my past <br />But now I want our relationship to last. <br />I can only live the life of faith and love <br />For what else is so stable than You above? <br />My dependence upon You has brought <br />patience and peace man has not wrought<br /><br />Kathryn Tyler King<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-does-it-take-2/
