Watching and Waiting

Am I ready now, O Lord,

ready to be free,

ready not to be long for this world,

but to see eternity unfurled?

Am I ready now, O Lord,

just to soar to Thee,

just to let these cares all drop away,

set my gaze toward Thy peerless day?

Make me ready, holy Lord,

eager would I be,

earnest for Thy glory to be shone,

longing to belong to Thee alone!

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"Few of us, I think, live daily on the edge of eternity in the conscious way that the Puritans did...the extraordinary vivacity, even hilarity... stemmed directly, I believe, from the unflinching, matter-of-fact realism with which they prepared them-selves for death, so as always to be found, as it were, packed up and ready to go."

-- J.I. Packer, Quest for Godliness

titled from "Blessed Assurance"