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 that I long to sing,  
But I cannot.  
A deep joy I cannot express.  
I tremble with desire; 
Praises well up within me,  
waiting to erupt. 
My hands lift in the worship of my God,  
My Jesus, to serenade. 
 
 
So why is there a blockade in me?  
Why do I choke when the desire  
to sing peaks?  
 
 
I recall moments 
When I looked away from Jesus  
and indulged the flesh: 
 
 
The instant those awful words  
poured out of my mouth;
When my wife was in tears,  
And I didn’t care. 
 
 
When my child slammed the door  
and declared he hates me.  
 
 
The moment my friend left,  
shaking his head in disgust.  
When my colleague felt abused,  
diminished, and betrayed.  
The time my hidden dagger  
drove through his back. 
 
 
The night alone at the hotel  
On that business trip, 
When all morality caved in,  
And I lost my way with a stranger.  
 
 
The moment I turned in that report—  
the embellished facts, 
The inflated figures— 
that tormented 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? 
 
 
Oh, that you would deliver me from myself  
and plunge me into your river of mercy and grace  
that flows from Calvary,  
bringing your forgiveness  
and freedom from my guilt.  
 
 
Unseal my lips, O Lord, 
so that my mouth may open with praise.  
 
 
For you alone I desire. 
To you alone I live to worship  
and praise you all the days of my life.  
 
 
Amen!