From Darkness to The Light

Hurtling down on hell’s highway,

On the road that leads to destruction:

With stubborn will to go my way,

And a heart overcome by frustration:

What lay ahead I did not know,

But believed I had to get somewhere:

My deepest fears I would not show,

For pride forbade me my soul to bare.

Darkness surrounded my every plan;

Till no way out was in sight:

Still faster on in haste I ran

In courseless, dismal, futile flight.

Until at last worn out I stumbled,

And fell before the Mighty Rock:

Broken, contrite, entirely humbled;

It was there I heard my Savior knock.

He asked if He could give me life,

A life purchased by His Blood Divine;

In exchange for my sin and strife,

And the selfish nature that was mine.

To my shame I realized my state;

What a miserable wretch was I:

I knew tomorrow would be too late

Should today pass me by.

Then I looked and there before me lay,

My entire existence in a thousand pieces;

So I gave them all to My Lord that day,

That He may do with them as He pleases:

Those broken pieces, He took them all,

And He gave me back a brand new heart;

And the day I responded to His call,

Was the day I got a brand new start.

I was hopeless, sinful and lost,

Wallowing in my sorrowful plight;

But Jesus paid a precious cost

That I could become a child of Light.

No sorrow now could ever dim

The joy that I have come to gain;

Now the life I live I live in Him

Because Jesus died and rose again.

Words can’t express the gratitude

I feel for all He did for me;

As I press on in His Spirit’s fortitude

Until my Savior’s face I see.

Eric Anthony Trott

9^th January 2013