Psalm 51:15

New Living Translation

Unseal my lips, O Lord,
    that my mouth may praise you.

For Meditation

There is a song in my heart I want to sing –

but cannot 

a deep joy I cannot express. 

I tremble with desire 

praises well up in me 

waiting to erupt 

hands to lift

in the worship of my God 

my Jesus to serenade.

So, why the blockade in me 

why I choke when the desire

to sing peaks. 

Flashes of the moments

when I looked away from Jesus,

and indulged the flesh – 

The minute those awful words

poured out of my mouth, 

when my wife cried

and I did not care 

when my child slammed that door

and shouted, “I hate you.”

The moment my friend flew away 

shaking his head in disgust, 

when my colleague felt abused,

diminished and betrayed,

the time my well-hidden dagger 

drove through his back.

The night alone at the hotel, 

on that business trip, 

when all morality caved in

and I lost it with that stranger.

The instant I turned in that report –

the embellished facts, 

the inflated figures, 

that torment me with guilt,

the emotions that assail me. 

So how can I sing my song? 

How can I worship and rejoice

in the Lord I love. 

O, that you will deliver me from me

and plunge me into your river of mercy and grace

that flows from Calvary, 

which bring your forgiveness,

and the freedom from my guilt.

Unseal my lips, O Lord, 

that my mouth will open with praise (Psalm 51:15).  

For you alone I desire, 

to you alone I live to worship

and praise you all the days of my life.

Amen!