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Three more poems from Living In God’s Rhyme (© 2017 by Tim Carter). Thoughts about letting God into my life and the transformation that happens. That transformation is available to all of us.
First poem can be found on page 147
DO NOT LET ME SIT
I sit with pen in hand because it is too hard to stand.
I sit in the chair looking up in the air.
I think that I know, but is it really so?
And I realize that for thoughts to materialize
Praying to you is what I must do.
Lord, I love you, I really do.
I do not wish, but hope instead
That I can pray and clear my head
So that today all I desire is you.
I am what I am, I do not like to hear,
For that to be true, I must abandon you.
I am what I am, that I greatly fear,
If that is so, then I have not been made anew.
My prayer, Lord, is that I let you be
Who you are, so that what you see in me
Is more that I am alone, but all that I am with you.
It is only by your grace that with me you are not through.
And as I place my trust in you I see each line is longer
As my faith, my love, my hope in you, Lord, gets stronger.
Lord, with you I know there is no danger
That one day we may become strangers.
Lord,
Help me to pray every day,
To read your word and know what I have heard.
Help me to spread your good news to more than a few,
To more than those sitting in the pew not knowing what to do.
Lead me to those, the ones you chose
To hear of you and all that you have done.
May every day be the beginning
Of showing others that winning
In life need not be full of stress,
Not when you, Lord, are here to bless.
Thank you, Lord, that these words
That rhyme have a reason.
That the thoughts that are written
Will always be in season.
For it is with you, Father, that our lives are full,
That when we care, it is you that we share.
From page 149
WHOSE WORDS
And this is my prayer; that your love may abound
more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
so that you may be able to discern what is best
and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes
Jesus Christ – to the glory and praise of God.
Phil 1:9,10
Whose words do we seek
As we hear others speak?
Are they the words of truth
That in us will bear fruit?
As believers do we know God’s word
Or do we only know what we have heard?
Do we ever make the time to know
What God’s word says so we may grow?
Do we have the desire to understand
Where it is God wants us to stand?
Do we search his word, do we make the time to study
So that when someone speaks we are not just putty?
Do we know when the words are from God and not from man?
To understand your word we must have a yearning
To listen to others and not overlook our own learning.
Through prayer and reflection in our time alone
With you, Father, we will mature in our love for the cornerstone.
The cornerstone of your church, of our faith, your Son Jesus,
Is fully known as we seek in your word how you see us.
We must read so we know the truth when we hear it
And know what is not from you so we may not be near it.
You, Lord, love us every day
So every day we must...
