Anticipation

I have been really busy this week and didn't have a chance to write womething, so I am giving you another of my poems.

When I was young I remember my dad telling me that the angels had never experienced salvation since they had never sinned. He said they will probably be as excited to meet us and hear about salvation as we will be to hear what life as an angel has been like. 

That is what inspired this poem.  I hope you like it.

 I hope you like it.

Anticipation

I walked through the gates of pearl when my life on earth was through.

I viewed the Holy City as I had waited so long to do.

 

So many things I had read about that the Bible told me of

The beautiful light that comes from God and the city filled with love.

 

My family and my friends were there who had died and gone before.

There was Moses, Noah, Peter and Paul, Elijah and so many more.

 

I had heard about the streets of gold, ‘twas beyond my imagination.

I longed to hear the angels sing with great anticipation.

 

I stood beside the crystal sea, its beauty beyond compare.

I looked around and couldn’t believe that I was really there.

 

The city’s foundation of twelve precious stones I’d heard about on earth

Was beautiful past all description, no way could you measure its worth.

 

I wanted to speak to friends of old who had come here long ago,

To hear what life was like up here, I’d waited so long to know.

 

And, oh, the marriage supper of Christ, I couldn’t wait to attend.

The meat and bread and fruits and such, its bounty would never end.

 

Walking through the city I kept breaking into song

With words more glorious than I could describe, I sang it all day long.

 

The angels were awesome, so regal and tall, I followed them all around.

Their wings so mighty with snow white feathers, made a soft rustling sound.

 

And, I found I could fly, imagine that, just floating from here to there.

With merely a thought of my destination, I could be anywhere.

 

Then I found myself standing at the throne of the God of all creation.

The beauty and glory that filled the air, I cannot describe the sensation.

 

His voice was like nothing I’d ever heard, the powerful resonant tone

Filled my being with love and peace and joy like nothing I’d ever known.

 

Then I felt a great power surge through my soul giving strength beyond degree

For I was in the presence of the Holy Spirit who had always strengthened me.

 

 

But when I saw Jesus, my heart just stopped, how could I ever express

My love for Him for what He did, but He already knows that I guess.

 

As I turned around to walk away an angel was standing there,

And I realized I’d seen him all day long, he’d been with me everywhere.

 

“Are you my guardian angel”, I asked, “for you’re always by my side?”

“If so, I thank you for the things that you did, for many times I could have died.”

 

“No”, said the angel, “I’m a worker up here. I helped to build what you see.

Another angel was guarding your steps. Your guardian wasn’t me.”

 

“Then why have you stayed so close by my side ever since I walked through the gates?

Are you going to give me a tour of Heaven? If so, I can hardly wait.”

 

“No,” said the angel, “You don’t understand, I’ve waited so long for this day.

For Jesus has told us all about you, and said you were headed this way.”

 

“We have heard stories of salvation and healing and miracles you couldn’t explain.

Things that we never experience up here, we could listen again and again.”

 

“You see, we have been waiting with anticipation for you to arrive from earth

And tell us all just how it feels to have a spiritual rebirth.”

 

“So, I’ve been by your side, not to take care of you, as I know perhaps it has seemed,

For I’ve waited so long to hear you sing the song of the redeemed.

 

                                                                   Janice Austin

                                                                   July 20, 2003 5:41 PM

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