22, 3-2-SHOW NOTES & COPYRIGHTS, 10/17/21
As far as today’s show notes are concerned, I want to announce, very loudly and clearly, that I used spell check and any misspellings are not from my fingers tapping on the letters on the keyboard. That’s all I have to say.
Now it’s up to you, Dave. . . . . . . . . . . . . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Today we have poems about Jesus being the Bread of Life, the wonder of God’s way, a couple of the amazing things God has done for me, and God’s rest.
MATTHEW 16:6 (Living In God’s Rhyme, pg. 179)
I tremble in fear as I write these words,
Not in fear of what the reader may think.
I tremble in fear, in awe of God that stirred
My heart to believe I can be his scribe.
Throughout the Old and New Testaments
There are warnings about false prophets.
Warnings were given during the times of the law
And again today knowing all his people saw.
During the times of the Law
God’s chosen ones were instructed
As they sought their release
To eat unleavened bread.
Today we are saved by unleavened bread
Jesus the bread of life knew no sin.
In Matthew we find that the rulers of the law,
The Pharisees and the Sadducees, fought what they saw.
Though seeing they were unbelieving,
Missing God’s mighty wonder and awe.
After refusing the demands of those who were blind
Jesus left the religious leaders and others behind.
When they went across the lake,
the disciples forgot to take bread.
“Be careful,” Jesus said to them.
“Be on your guard against the yeast
of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Matthew 16:5,6
The disciples perhaps confused,
Or perhaps like a writer confounded,
Wondered if what he said
Was because they didn’t bring any bread.
Knowing of their discussion, Jesus asked,
“You of little faith, why are you talking
among yourselves about having no bread?
(Matthew 16:8)
And he reminded them of the times
They gathered baskets and baskets of loaves
That were left over, which were more,
More than they had when they began.
Jesus continued,
“How is it you don’t understand that I
was not talking to you about bread?
Be on guard against the yeast
of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
(Matthew 16:11)
Then the disciples knew as we should know
That it was not the yeast used in the bread
That they should guard against, but the preaching
Of those leaders in power and their false teaching.
Today there are those who profess
To know better than the rest,
That the Jesus they teach
They will show you how to reach.
God’s ways are not our ways
And any word we add or change
That leads a one in need astray,
For us life will become stranger,
Stranger with danger.
Jesus, the Bread of Life, needs no yeast.
Nothing needs to be added, no nothing,
How do we improve on perfection,
Ours through his death and resurrection?
We need to read God’s word,
We need to pray for wisdom
To know the words of man we have heard
Are the words that rule God’s Kingdom.
©2018 Living In God’s Rhyme by Tim Carter
Ok, the last 2 lines are confusing or mis-written. It has been 4 years since I wrote this poem. My hope is that I was trying to say that we...
