Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine [make day dawn] upon you and give you light … Shine -- be radiant with the glory of the Lord; for your light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you! … No one is able to come to Me unless the Father Who sent Me attracts and draws him and gives him the desire to come to Me … The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them … The Lord GOD has opened my ear …
Eph.5:14 (Amp); Is.60:1 (Amp); Jn.6:44 (Amp); Prov.20:12 (KJV); Is.50:5 (RSV)

Then came the day when I felt God's Own hand
upon me, helping me to understand
that He is real -- that He was drawing me
to His Own Self, to Jesus. I could see,
all of a sudden, wonders marv'lous, true
which hitherto had been hid from my view
-- that an incredible reality
of Light exists, a wondrous purity
just on the other side of things. And I
- e'en I! - was being called by God; that my
fate … destiny! … was in His hands, not mine …

Lo! Thou wert calling me, Lord, to be Thine:
to give myself to Thee, to let Thee be
my very Life, to cleanse me, set me free! …

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The sun shall be no more your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you; but the Lord shall be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory and your beauty … Create in me a clean heart, O God … where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty -- emancipation from bondage, freedom …
Is.60:19 (Amp); Ps.51:10 (KJV); 2Cor.3:17 (Amp).

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