Category: Psalms of Lazarus
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I Love You, O Lord
I loved You, and Your love flowed like a river that overflows. Is my heart a sea? How, O Lord, can my heart contain Your pouring love? I adored Your face, and it inclined toward me, illumining my face. I lost my mind to the fire of Your love, and the direction of the people…
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You Have Deceived Me, O Lord
“You have deceived me, O Lord, and I was deceived” (Jeremiah 20:7). Since the time Your voice appeared within me and You said, ‘Follow Me,’ I sold my hours and my days and burned the remnants of my times, and my garment which I bought with my tears I sold, so that the weight of…
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My God, my God, why have You let me down!
I cried out to You: Come, O Jesus. So You came, and You let me down. I imagined You coming from heaven upon the clouds (Acts 11:1), a judge and arbiter, judging and waging war in righteousness, with eyes of flaming fire and a whip of fire in Your hand, clothed in a robe dipped…
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Come, O Jesus
Come, O Jesus. Come quickly, O Lord, for Your Church, which You founded, is not well — and neither are we. Come! Did You not say, “Behold, I am coming quickly”? Then why the delay, O God? Have You forgotten us, or are You sleeping in the stillness of the stars? Have the clouds secluded…
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Lift, O Lord, Your Burden from Me
Lift, O God, Your burden from me, for my burden has exhausted my soul and my body Remove, O God, Your burden from me, for I am wearied by a portion of my burden I heard Your prophet calling out” “Cast your burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain you””, and I heard You…