My Father’s World?

Adapted from the hymn “This Is My Father’s World”

This is my Father’s world.
     Yet how often do I seize control
          and usurp the role
          reserved for sovereign God?
 
O let me n’er forget
      that He is Lord and I am not.
      Why can’t I be taught
           my place as humble creature?

Though the wrong seems oft so strong
     to inflate my pride
     and lead me on a wild ride,

God is the ruler, yet
     I still try to run my life,
         making strife upon strife
         and into a frenzy hurled.

This is my Father’s world.

~ by merylherr on October 18, 2009.