A song of transformation and deliverance
By Jacque Balyeat
This was written about a trip I made to Venezuela and was on a boat during a super cell storm. It was truly amazing that we survived. Only a few people spoke any English and I was quite alone except for the Lord who was amazingly with me. This is my attempt to sing His praises!
My God my Lord let everything that breathes praise your glorious name! Let the heavenly light sing a wondrous song of your might, your love and your praise!
You orchestrate both heavenly and the earthly masses as a skilled conductor extracting the beautiful harmonic tones, creating an unprecedented symphony.
Not simply a composition of instruments but of sounds, lights, feelings and aromas. All senses overwhelmed by your creation!
Heaven and earth are yours and at your direction they give forth rage or beauty!
You have taken me from drinking in of your amazing sun and stunning nature to the darkest tumult of ominous black clouds, lightning and thunder that surged through my very bones! Waves catapulting across sheared and splintered planks, destroying the vessel around us.
Hearing those who do not know you, screeching in despair with no one to come to their rescue! No one to shield them from the deep tumultuous watery grave awaiting us.
But you my God, my Rock, my shield. You, the creator and orchestrator of life itself, gave me comfort and peace amid the destruction!
I knelt as the cold raging waters attacked my body, and I began to pray. You were there even amid the horror! You ... Truth and Righteousness! You... worthy of all praise! You ... my Rock and my Shield! How could I do anything besides praise your everlasting name!! And in praising you was found comfort and peace for my soul! I remembered your complete Holiness and it amazed, filled and calmed me!
My unrighteousness, unworthiness, guilt and damnation was before me! But my faith in you brought to mind your unfathomable forgiveness, love and mercy! By FAITH your praise was still on my lips as we grew closer, closer and closer to death. How could I not sing YOUR praises from the mountain tops! Praises from the deep valleys! Praises from the deserts scorching and bare! Praises from the flowing rivers! EVEN praises from the violent seas! Praises for YOU OUR LORD GOD from EVERYWHERE! YOU alone are worthy!!!
As stars began peaking through the clouds and jerking gave way to gentle rocking it was realized that only YOU can deliver security in the midst of chaos, even death.
How could I have prepared for what you were about to display! You had already unleashed your unparalleled power and wrath! How could your majesty of such enormous magnitude be any greater? Ohhhhhhh.... but how much greater it is!!!!
You made the stars peak out through the clouds. You made the moon give forth its intriguing light. Then, too spectacular to even phantom, the waters that threatened to drag us to the dreary depths of the sea, now gave way to your surreal glorious visual gift that was never to be forgotten! The glorious waters glowing with blue and green iridescent illuminated creatures as they entertained the exhausted, tested survivors. Who could imagine such beauty??? The spectacular light show of your creatures dancing in an array of glowing colors never to be recreated in that exact way again!
None can compare to you, my Lord!!! You transformed the storm to glory! You transformed the darkness to light! And through your resurrection you transformed us from death to life!
Thanks be to God, my Rock, my Savior, my comfort and my shield!!! In you I delight!!! Everlasting praise to the God who is Truth and Righteousness! The one and only true Lord God Almighty!!!