Hearts Full of Eternity

God of Wonders, in secret
Moving through
The lost and oppressed
To pull them closer to You
Under powerful, arrogant noses,
Dry-souled and graceless,
Who cannot see what is,
What’s in front of their faces.
Who try to prevent Your victory
By compounding the weak ones’ cost
Yet Your majesty burns
Through the pain and loss
Giving new life to the dying:
Illuminating eternity.
What a mystery! Death is impotent.
Human urgency
Yields to divine omnipotence;
Life Eternal swallows fear,
As its radiant enormity
Draws nearer and nearer
And all that’s broken is restored,
And all that’s unwell is sound,
And all that’s wicked burns away,
And all that’s lost is found
And His people feel it now
Through the open door
On the other side of the room
True reality is so much more,
More in meaning, more real
Than our barter and trade,
Our battery and exploits-
This striving, grasping existence fades
As the oncoming glow of eternity
Grows in brightness and warmth
Some sister-realm entangled
But purer in substance and form

If the God of that Eternity is for us,
Who can be against us?

If we cannot avoid the approaching radiance,
What is there to fear here?

These weak and momentary struggles
Fall to the graveside;
Immense beauty blooms
Forever incorruptible, truly alive.

So close, we already sense it in the room with us.