Behold

1 John 3:1 ~ "Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on s, that we should be called children of God!  Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him."

Behold ~ look and see.  

Look unto that which which we do not know and can hardly perceive.

A manner of loving,

   and soul sick hearts are starving,

So my God came, He came carving.

   Carving a place,

in this manner of loving grace,

   a place where soul sick hearts fall into His loving embrace.

We must behold, look unto this love, this manner of love -

   for it is foreign to us,

with our constant selfish lust.

   Ourselves, is our continual fuss.

Us, is what keeps us from knowing,

   this manner of bestowing.

So, writer reminds,

   this love, within us, no man finds.

To behold ~ is an absolute must,

   to rid us of selfish lust,

to stop the continual me fuss.

   His manner of loving, I must simply trust.

A love of unearthly kind,

   this world desperately needs to find.

Beholding,

   is that which writer knows we need - to be knowing.

For this manner of loving, you and I have not the slightest trace,

   it comes only from beholding His lovely face.