PODCAST 17, 2-7,
Today we are going to read poems about grace, God’s grace. I found 3 poems with grace in the title and another that is about grace. Three of the poems are unpublished.
What is God’s grace?
Grace is the unmerited favor of God for those who are under condemnation for their sin.
HIS GRACE
Having heard God’s call
The apostle Paul,
Hearing God’s Voice
Was able to rejoice.
Having faced the day
We prepare to pray,
Asking God to deliver us.
It is then in Him we must trust.
When we ask for God’s grace
In this world we face,
Do we trust it is done
And the battle is won?
He has said His grace is,
It is here in the present time.
We’ve asked and so He gives
In that moment our needed rhyme.
He is
We are
We asked
He gave
At the moment we ask
To be relieved of the task
The answer to our prayer,
His grace is now there.
We must believe
That we receive
In faith to know
That it is so.
Ask and receive His grace.
We are only human in this place.
We at times close our eyes,
But as we pray He never denies.
HIS GRACE IS SUFFICIENT,
His grace is a prayer away.
A few days later:
If we pray in His will,
What is pleasing to Him,
He will answer our pleas.
He knows our needs.
Whether today or another
When the answer is revealed,
Know that there is no other
By whose grace we are healed.
When we say Amen
As our prayer ends
We will know
It is so.
8/5/19, 8/7/19, tcarter (Facebook)
When I was looking for poems with grace in the title, these two poems were together,
HIS GRACE (pg. 127, God Still Rhymes)
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith –
and this is not from yourselves, it is a gift of God –
not by works so that no one can boast.” (Eph 2: 8-9)
It is by grace that we embrace
Our salvation, our hope,
That in this race we see his face,
That in this world we can cope.
What is grace?
His love for us,
A fallen race,
We have lost
Our way, our place,
Since the time
In the Garden.
Asking
what is mine
Without thought
Or concern
For what we ought
To do or think.
And as the eye
Does blink
We wonder why
As we wander
As in the journey
The path meanders,
Til the day’s end
Not knowing
Whether friend
Or other
We did treat
One we did meet
As a brother.
Grace is His love given freely,
A gift we will never deserve.
But it is there for us to accept,
Accept the love he does give
In this life we do live.
And we share that gift
As others we uplift
So as we follow, we serve.
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus
to do good works, which God prepared in advance
for us to do.” (Eph 2:10)
We now share our faith
We received by His grace
As we then serve others,
Our sisters and brothers.
We show our faith by our works,
Which have been prepared for us
By the God of Heaven above
That we may show his love.
Jesus said, “believe, be baptized and spread the gospel”
The gospel is full of his...
