Category: Poetry

“By Chance?”

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I had no knowledge at the start

When my life began with that conceptive spark.

Did life happen instantaneously?

What’s the real story all about me?

Am I here by chance?

Has every road taken come by happenstance?

Am I just a flash in the pan?

What is the true story of who I am?

Here’s the deal, the real story.

I was created for His glory.

I am created by design

With His perfect plan for me in mind.

I was fashioned with special care;

My life, my eyes, and sometimes frizzy hair.

To be His workmanship here on this earth,

To use my gifts till I return to dirt.

To be the life that He can work through;

All of my parts, all of me . . . and my special hue.

I am designed specially by His hand,

And nothing about me was left to chance!

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them,” Ephesians 2:10

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“Merry Christmas Everyone!”

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Just want to take some time to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!  God has used each one of you to bless me in one way or another this year.  You guys are awesome and I pray His very best for you now and into the next year. 

Also, unless I become deeply inspired 🙂 (we all know how that is), I will be taking the week off from writing.  There will be no new posts or Sunday School lessons until January. 

Be blessed.  Enjoy your Savior, your family, your friends, your holiday!

 

 

“Speak Blessings!”

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Whipping about, lashing and hateful
This small member’s language is often fateful.
For it strips and works to tear people down
Dropping their countenance to the ground.

How often have we participated in the mess,
When instead we could have used it to bless.
To encourage, to lift, to exalt another;
To enrich the lives of our Christian brother.

To hold, to love, to show what’s right,
Instead, we often use it to fight.
Wouldn’t it have been just as easy still
To bless according to God’s holy will?

To show favor over mocking disdain,
And love over inflicting pain.
To build and nurture a life within,
Instead of participating in this deadly sin.

Whose pride causes a boast of self,
Instead of nurturing to spiritual health.
Speak blessings and help a life to grow,
And you’ll reap the rewards from that life you did sow.

“Let your speech always be with grace. . .” Colossians 4:6

“Greater Is He!”

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Greater is He that is in me!

The life inside that I cannot see.

Only feel with the passion and the burn

Love from the cross that flows unearned.

 

Glowing embers His spirit unfolds.

Power inside of stories untold!

Ripping away all the fear and frights;

Layering on His love’s holy light.

 

The life inside has been swept and cleaned

By the Master who defeats enemies unseen.

Foes tremble, their strength can’t compare,

‘Cause greater is He now resides there.

“Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world,” 1 John 4:4

“Whatever!”

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Whatever is a word

Used with disregard;

It comes as an answer

When life seems hard.

 

Whatever is a comfort

I take to heart;

A word I treasure

When life tears me apart.

 

Because, whatever covers

All my pain and sorrow.

Whatever sows seeds

Of hope for tomorrow.

 

Whatever! No matter

What the burden is,

I cast them to Him,

And now they are His.

 

I don’t have to worry,

I don’t have to fear;

Shouldered upon His love,

All frets disappear.

 

“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you,” 1 Peter 5:7

 

“Search Me, O God!”

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Search me, O God

From the inside out

And see what my life

Is all about.

Am I living true to Your holy name,

Or is my worship just a game?

 

Search me, O God

And know my heart

And see from Your way

Have I thus part.

In my spirit, I am most sincere,

Please search, and to Your side

Draw me near.

 

Search me, O God

And tell if You see

Anything that will keep me

From all eternity.

If it be there help me dig out the root

That I might produce Your spiritual fruit.

 

Search me, O God

My blessed Savior,

Save me from my sometimes

Ungodly behavior.

Apologetically I come,

With a heart in deep sorrow,

Pleading for You to lead me

To Your heavenly tomorrow.

 

Search me, O God

And lead me home

To the place where I stand

Before Your righteous throne.

Living in the peace You gave to me,

For Your search dug out who I used to be.

 

“Worship!”

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Worship is how we honor God,

Taking the mind off of self.

It’s the moving of the soul and spirit,

Of His goodness and praises to tell.

 

Worship is how we lift Him up,

To the place where He belongs.

In worship we close our eyes to the world

To sing our heavenly song.

 

Worship gives Him the glory

That is due His holy name,

With all the hosts of heaven enjoined

In Him our salvation we claim.

 

Darkness and troubles try to trample it out

But my worship still remains.

Through rain and floods, storms a gale

My worship is still the same.

 

Through trials and tests, pain and sorrows,

It causes my worship to grow.

Hard nights and long days

Praise in my life I do sow.

No matter what’s going around you

God is still worthy to be praised.

With hearts bowed down and eyes closed

With my hands do I raise.

 

Stepping into worship I empty my heart

Of all my cares and woes.

For He is the One who brings me out

Of this I surely know.

 

Getting rid of all the stife

In worship do I release.

Putting Him on a pedestal

As my whole, my centerpiece.

God is good and God is great

In worship is what we do.

By and by, life goes on

But won’t you worship Him, too!

“Give unto the LORD the glory due His name,” Psalm 29:1

“It Should Be Me!”

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It should be me there on that tree

to perish for all eternity.

Bearing the burdens of all my wrongs,

crying and wailing the sinner’s song.

 

It should be me who suffered on that night

bearing the brunt of the whipper’s stripes,

but when He looked down through the ages,

passing by the kings, wise men and sages,

He saw something special in me

that compelled Him to still mount that tree.

 

It should be me who readily paid the cost

because I was the one that was truly lost.

But Jesus didn’t see it that way,

which is why on this earth He could not stay.

Doing all at the Father’s holy will,

mounting higher and higher on Calvary’s hill,

He was lifted up that we might be free,

to draw men to Himself, that was the key.

 

It should be me is what we need to say,

because we are the sheep that have gone astray,

doing everything in our own stubborn way,

far from the King’s heavenly highway.

But Jesus stepped in looking down from the cross,

viewing with battered eyes all that were lost,

He and His Father they did agree,

for the world to be saved, it should be Me!

 

Thank you Jesus for stepping in for me!

 

John 3:17  “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”