Thirsting For Living Water

How I long for cooling rain
For rain to dress this dry parched earth
Saturate me with your healing water
Removes the shackles around fist-tightened fear

Though I am weary, wounded and torn
Be the spring in the wilderness my spirit desires
The only answer worth finding
In this desert of searing questions

I cannot count on man alone
I cannot hope beyond my flesh
But only thirst for higher ways
For truth and righteousness

As the sun melts away my pride
Restore my soul anew
Burn for me Holy fire
Replace all of me with You

Through the crucible of desert nights
You've led kings and prophets
I am just a lowly child
Who cannot bear this weight

Time blows like ever-shifting sands
Peppers my hair with gray
My heart with pain
And the storm shows no sign of letting up

How can one grasp at flame that burns the flesh?
Or view a holiness that sears the soul?
How can I stand and face the judgment
That comes from my own unworthy soul?
When I am judge, jury, and condemner?