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The following is a Poem I wrote some years ago, it always challenges me when I read it and I thought it might be used of God to do the same for you so here it is for His glory and your perusal and meditation:

None In Heaven But Thee

Heaven my delight, my goal, my desire

For only one thing do I delight in it

Because my Saviour, my Lord, my King

Therein dwells

 

Some seek heaven because of pleasure

their desire and delight is in the pleasure

though they won’t say so

but were there a heaven where pleasure exists

and God was not there they will yet desire it

This is not for me I seek higher things

 

Others seek a heaven to avoid hell

they despise hell and all it stands for

they are ecstatic about avoiding hell

but would they still desire heaven if hell ceased to exist

This desire is not for me, I seek higher things

 

I gazed into heaven and treasures lay,

innumerable; the wealth surpassed any other

and the joy of many are overwhelmed by this

they count their jewels daily and think of mansions

But this is not for me I seek higher things

 

Others choose heaven because they think they deserve it

They have toiled so long and their wages cannot be any less

Heaven is surely their home for they would have nothing less.

This again is lesser than what I seek, this is not for me

 

I care little about heaven and its wealth

I care little about mansions and crowns

I care little about jewels and gold

I care little about hell and its howls

I seek something higher, they are not for me

 

The one I care for, OH! To die for

He outshines the stars in splendour

He out gives all the world put together

He out loves the greatest of all lovers

He out cares the loveliest of mothers

He alone holds my heart, my soul my all

I will live in the lowliest of places as long as He were there

I will loose all worldly wealth for Him alone

I will cast out all goods, if by it I will have Him

I care not for all the rest, if he is there.

 

(Ps. 73:25; Isa. 64:4; Ps. 31:19)

 

Prayer: Oh! Lord Oh! That these were my cry in every situation, in every condition, in every sorrow – OH! to have you and be satisfied.