Worship on the Beach
By Andrew Wildes | 
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Came home and took a walk by the beach…and was just struck almost speechless by what I saw- I was almost alone all alone on the beach, which just enriched the experience. Immediately i wrote this…thought I’d share it.
Just reflecting on it all…(before Sunset)
Worship on the Beach
Have you ever stopped to consider the marvels of this life sometime?
A new born baby? The beautiful sunshine?
Have you ever stood barefoot on a plot of sand -
And consider the millions of grains that form your platform?
Or better yet – consider the sunset!
I see it now and am amazed – that this magnificent portrait ends all my days
How sad, that throughout all my days, so often have I missed it!
So often I have gone a hustle-a bustling and failed to glimpse it-
Never considering it – or allowing my self, like now
to be brought to the brink of worship
to look out – with sirens dim in the background,
And to know that life sure is not perfect
But for sure God is ever present – ever evident
And willing to renew our lives with His matchless strength.
Bright Crimson, orange and golden rays, intermingled
On a canvas of dark grays, and purples and brighter blues…
God, the scene causes my heart to blush-
Its like wildfire in the skies! I look and just cannot deny you.
And as I throw off all restraints
And allow my heart to be enraptured by your indescribable but
Fast receding beauty… I fall in love with God again!
Again God!
I sit here on this beach alone, and consider myself truly foolish
For being so prone – too easily content to leave you.
It was just like this…except grander and more glamorous! and gripping!
Oh to be in my love, as steadfast as the waves that crash upon this beach
Oh to love you God, and seek you quickly, and with all my heart
Before, like this sunset now hid behind a mountain
You are beyond my reach.
Oh God to love you always, as I do now – with appreciation of,
but not desperate need for friends, or the prodding of people.
This should be my life of worship! To think of you like the ocean!
As I am sitting still, I know well
By all I see, by all I hear
That you extend for miles around me -
With buoyant love to lift me, or dreadful strength to drown me
Depths of thoroughly unchartered regions – miles beyond all that men can reach
And depths so sacred are in your heart - that no man in flesh can breach
I want worship like this God! Worship that makes me poetic
And not stick to express my love to the God I love
Do you know what its like to sit and worship on a beach all alone?
As a day fades and the noise of the maddening crowd-
of a maddening life of fears, doubts, failures, inordinate passions
and all the gremlins of anxiety
Are suppressed with disdain, and
Usurped in the light of beauty inscrutable- nature unfathomable,
All the work of one God -
Great and awesome and glorious beyond limit
Hidden from eyes, but discernible!
Do you know what worship like this is like?
Especially when you experience all this with the knowledge that you already have Heart knowledge
Of this God, and are assured to enjoy HIS magnificence forever -
Let me tell you, such an experience brings you to worship!
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