Can I Be With You

Jesus spoke to my heart on the way home the other night.  It wasn't one of those clear, to-the-point things.  This time it was just a general feeling.  Yet the overall message was very clear and very reassuring.

"The things you are losing need to be gone.  The things you are gaining are making you more complete in Me."

I'm coming through a really rough couple of years.  The pain of going through this fire is intense.  But I'm coming through.  I'm not the same man I was.  And I like what I'm becoming. 

I know Jesus better and more assuredly than I ever have.  I need Him now - and I KNOW I need Him now - more than ever before.  I'm beginning to understand, experience, and live the joy of knowing what it is to be completely helpless and dependent on Jesus Christ.


Lord I pray You continue Your work in me.  Lord I pray You burn out all that is unlike You.  Lord I pray You build me up with all that is pure and true and breathe Your life into me.  And Lord I pray, can I be with You?


Rich Mullins - Be With You

Everybody each and all
We're gonna die eventually
It's no more or less our faults
Than it is our destiny
So now Lord I come to you
Asking only for Your grace
You know what I've put myself through
All those empty dreams I chased

And when my body lies in the ruins
Of the lies that nearly ruined me
Will You pick up the pieces
That were pure and true
And breathe Your life into them
And set them free?

And when You start this world over
Again from scratch
Will You make me anew
Out of the stuff that lasts
Stuff that's purer than gold is
And clearer than glass could ever be

Can I be with You?
Can I be with You?

And everybody all and each
From the day that we are born
We have to learn to walk beneath
Those mercies by which we're drawn
And now we wrestle in the dark
With these angels that we can't see
We will move on although with scars
Oh Lord move inside of me

And when my body lies in the ruins
Of the lies that nearly ruined me
Will You pick up the pieces
That were pure and true
And breathe Your life into them
And set them free?

And when You blast this cosmos
To kingdom come
When those jagged-edged mountains
I love are gone
When the sky is crossed with the tears
Of a thousand falling suns
As they crash into the sea

Can I be with you?
Can I be with you?