a prayer psalm from eph 1-3

God had a plan
God has always had a plan
It was a secret plan that he and only he knew
But now at the end of time God has chosen to reveal it
To reveal it…to us

This was God’s plan:
Before the universe even existed
Before a single star dotted the black velvet of space
God set out to display his glory
And this is how he chose to do it:
He would create a people for himself
He would send his Son to create this people
His Son would give his life to create a holy an blame-free people
And these people would display God’s greatness for all of heaven to see

Sovereign Lord
You alone can open our eyes
To see your awesome design
Help us to see and to grasp and to love
And to you be the glory forever.

So Before he even made the world he chose us
He chose us to be that people
He chose you, he chose me
He didn’ have to
He didn’t need to
But he chose us in his love

Oh it wouldn’t be easy
No, we would run away from God
We would run so far from God that we couldn’t even run back to him
In our rebelion we died
Our souls were dead
We had no hope
God wasn’t even a distant memory

But that didn’t stop God
No, he reached down raised our souls from the dead
He lifted us up from death
And breathed the life of heaven’s blessing into our souls
God made us his children
He made us heirs of a glorious inheritance
Then he handcrafted our lives one by one
He made us his eternal artwork
Artwork for the angels to see and admire

Sovereign Lord
You alone can open our eyes
To see your awesome design
Help us to see and to grasp and to love
And to you be the glory forever.

And this wasn’t just for us
No God is calling all peoples to join this great new people
People with a great heritage of faith…he is calling them
People who’ve never even heard of God or his law before…he is calling them
The old distinctions are gone
Everyone can come
Listen to the voice of God calling out
“There is peace for you if you are close by
There is peace even if you are far away.”

Sovereign Lord
You alone can open our eyes
To see your awesome design
Help us to see and to grasp and to love
And to you be the glory forever.

And God is using each person who comes
Each new member of this people of God
God is building them into a building
God is building a temple, a monument, a cathedral
Jesus is the cornerstone
Another Christian is an archway,
One person is tapesty and another is stained glass
Together we are becoming the grandest structure of all
We are the house of God
And God’s own Spirit will live inside its walls
Then God’s plan will be fulfilled:
We will live in him
And he will live in us

Sovereign Lord
You alone can open our eyes
To see your awesome design
Help us to see and to grasp and to love
And to you be the glory forever.

-Pastor DJ Jackson