Wholly Yours

lately i've been reading through Psalms and Romans in the evenings. it's the first time in quite awhile that reading scripture daily doesn't feel like something i have to check off a list or get done just to say i did it. i am finding that the evenings after abbey goes to sleep and everything else for the day has been done is the best time for me to do this. i'm not distracted by what i need to do once i'm done reading because it's all been done.

one thing that strikes me over and over again every night as i am reading Psalms is the complete awe and gratitude the Psalmists express towards the Lord. i know this isn't exactly shocking when you consider that's pretty much the theme of Psalms but it always makes me realize how little I express that same awe and gratitude on a daily basis. it makes me realize how much i take the greatness of God for granted.

this morning after i dropped abbey off at mother's day out i had the christian radio station on. i kind of can't stand the Christian radio station about 85-90% of the time. for the most part all the music sounds the same and words are pretty easy to guess at even if you've never heard the song..and don't get me started on the cheesiness of those djs. this morning though, David Crowder's song "wholly yours" came on. i don't known what is about David Crowder's music (i'd venture to guess the depth of his lyrics) but it always seems like just what i need to hear when i hear it.

here are the lyrics i found online:

I am full of earth
You are heaven’s worth
I am stained with dirt, prone to depravity
You are everything that is bright and clean
The antonym of me
You are divinity
But a certain sign of grace is this
From a broken earth flowers come up
Pushing through the dirt

You are holy, holy, holy
All heaven cries “Holy, holy God”
You are holy, holy, holy
I wanna be holy like You are

You are everything that is bright and clean
And You’re covering me with Your majesty
And the truest sign of grace was this
From wounded hands redemption fell down
Liberating man

You are holy, holy, holy
All heaven cries “Holy, holy God”
You are holy, holy, holy
I want to be holy like You are

But the harder I try the more clearly can I feel
The depth of our fall and the weight of it all
And so this might could be the most impossible thing
Your grandness in me making me clean

Glory, hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah
You are holy, holy, holy
All heaven cries “Holy, holy God”
You are holy, holy, holy
I want to be holy, holy God

So here I am, all of me
Finally everything
Wholly, wholly, wholly
I am wholly, wholly, wholly
I am wholly, wholly, wholly Yours

I am wholly Yours

I am full of earth and dirt and You


that bolded verse gets me every single time. so grateful for His grace that covers me.