Fierce Loyalty

Whence comes this loyalty to You so fierce?
Is it, O Lord, born of my gratitude
to You Who stretched Your hands for me to pierce
and gives Your body, blood to me for food?

 Whence comes this love for me I cannot fathom,
You felt at heart from all eternity?
Invisible God Who seems more like a phantom,
why, why are You so fiercely true to me?

Perhaps since You’re so great, mine’s born of fear,
or, since You are love, You’ve made me to love,
and since I love, I fear to hurt You here
with sins that need much mercy from above?

For me I see fierce loyalty so true
that I for love return it fierce toYou.

                  -- by Pete Voelz       8/16/12