I have tasted a thrill of fellowship with you, Lord, 

    which has made anything discordant with you to be disgusting.

Your possession of me this afternoon caught me up with such sheer joy

    that I thought I never had known anything like it.

You were so close and amazingly lovely

    that I felt like melting all over with a strange blissful contentment.

 

Having experiences like this several times a week,

    the thrill of filth repels me,

    for I know its power to drag me from You,

After an hour of close fellowship with You

    my soul feels clean, as new fallen snow.

 

Frank C. Laubach, 1884 – 1970, American missionary the Philippines

Letters by a Modern Mystic, freely modified

 

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His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, 

    through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 

    by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, 

    so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, 

    having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.