An Intimate Portrait

	Read Psalm 139:13-18 & Isaiah 64:8

You are painting an intimate portrait,
An intimate portrait of me;
Brushing my heart with the pow’r of Your love,
Stirring all the colors…
I’m learning to trust You now,
To trust in Your unfailing hand
As You hold me gently in place.
You have observed when I rise, when I fall;
You know my heart and its limited space.
Everyday you are patient,
With soft, tender strokes you pursue me again and again;
I’m hanging now with every dawn,
All a part of Your artistic plan…
Closer and loser I’m learning Your voice,
Your whisper keeps promising that I am alive!
And now I want to know You with Your kind of passion,
To see through Your artist’s eye –
It stretches my heart to begin to contain You...
That you would fashion me by choice.
Now this is the place that I long to be,
Everywhere else is becoming a shadow;
Here I breathe the breath of my Creator... I cannot fathom this love.
And in Your gaze I sense that I am complete,
Quieted and honored to sit at Your feet.
Created to know You, to love You –
My prayer becomes a cry, that when You are finished with me,
That I would be...
An intimate portrait of You.
Christy L. Nockels

"In His goodness He chose to make us His own children by giving us His true word. And we, out of all creation became His choice possession."
James 1:18

Christy Nockels is a songwriter who paints with words, a musician, singer and mentor.  She and her husband Nathan invest their lives for the spreading of God’s fame.