when my heart fails me (Psalm 40)

As for you, O LORD, you will not restrain

your mercy from me;

your steadfast love and your faithfulness will

ever preserve me!

Psalm 40:11

Overcome by Your goodness

     I fall down

     broken in my experiences

     broken in my sinfulness

     broken by my guilt

     broken in all my loss

Confessing iniquities

     I call out

     overtaken by my sin

     overtaken by my schemes

     overtaken by my imaginative idolatry

     overtaken by my love of a false god

Overflowing mercies

     fill my soul

     spilled out on Your cross

     spilled out in Your tender care

     spilled over from Your love

     spilled into my parched and weary soul

Declaring Your praises

     I worship You

     overflowing appreciation

     overflowing gratitude

     overflowing thanksgiving

     overflowing joy

Illumined by Your grace

     I now see

     You are pleased with Jesus

     You are pleased in my repentance

     You are pleased with my little faith

     You are pleased to make me Your child

Restored by My Deliverer

     I am now aware

     knowing I am always poor and needy

     knowing You always take thought of me

     knowing You will never delay

     knowing I delight to do Your will, O my God!