YES

Drawing by Marla Shaw O’Neill

For three days this tiny, three letter word has been jumping out at me. From a necklace that someone made that says, ‘yes,’ to a ‘Yes’ in each line of a sinner’s prayer, to words I read in a text or a book…what are you trying to show me LORD?

Yes, Jesus, I will be your bride
Take all of me and leave my pride
Out side the gate, that’s opened wide…
Yes, yes, yes…I will abide!
Yes, to the call that you’ve asked of me…
Yes, to the life where you I see…
Yes, to all you want me to be…
Yes, yes, yes, Jesus…I say yes to thee!
Yes, to trials and tests that will come…
Yes, to the joy and peace as I run…
Yes, to the race that has begun…
Yes, Yes, Yes, Jesus, I know you are God’s son…
Yes, to heartache, to live surrendered and free…
Yes, Jesus take all of me…
Without your Holy Spirit I cannot see…
So Yes, Jesus, open my heart to your life-giving tree…
Alive in your garden I shall run free…
Free from death and free from loss
All because of you, dying on a cross…
You said Yes…and I agree…
Yes Jesus, Yes, your bride I’ll be!

~Marla Shaw O’Neill October 23, 2019

Revelation 22:17 The Passion Translation (TPT) “Come,”[a] says the Holy Spirit and the Bride in divine duet. Let everyone who hears this duet join them in saying, “Come.” Let everyone gripped with spiritual thirst say, “Come.” And let everyone who craves the gift of living water[b] come and drink it freely. “It is my gift to you! Come.”
Footnotes:
a. Revelation 22:17 Or “be continuously coming”; also in each instance of the word come in this verse and v. 20.