MountingUp

Dear Lazarus,

I am sorry for turning my face from you.
All you wanted was to be seen, to be heard, to be loved.
Forgive me for throwing stones at you,
For killing you.

All you needed was love and truth.

I see it now.
I see you. I hear you. And I love you.

Christ within me, the hope of glory.
Christ within me has woken up.

I see clearly now that the rain is gone.
I am loved.
I am a new creation in Christ.

The old has passed, and the new has come.
Can’t you see? I AM making a way in the desert.

Up the mountain of the Lord you will go.
You will leave the old behind, and you will enter into the new.
You will receive a white stone, with a new name,
And you will be Mine.

Leave the old behind, for it is too heavy for you to carry up My mountain.
Put on My yoke that is easy and My burden that is light.
Be transformed on this mountain of transfiguration,
And be – who I called you to be.