"Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may smile again.
Before I depart and am no more" (Ps. 39:13)

The gaze of God upon me came,
my sins no longer sleep,
His gaze without, within my soul,
and I began to weep,
I pray You Lord, forgive my sins,
self-deceived was I,
I beg You Lord, remove Thy gaze,
for death is drawing nigh.

(The Apostle Peter denied his Lord on three successive occassions...then, as they were leading his Lord away, Jesus turned His gaze upon Peter. What must he have felt at that moment?)

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Bobby Gawthrop, V.D.M.
licensed, ordained SBC, licensed PCA
Ph.D. student (Whitefield Theological Seminary)
"Every minister in those days had a V.D.M. degree: Verbum Dei Minister. When, therefore, I became a teacher of apologetics it was natural for me to think, not only of my Th.M. and my Ph.D., but above all of my V.D.M. The former degrees were but means whereby I might be true to the latter degree." Cornelius Van Til