We can be assured that each step deeper into the Lord’s presence will reveal areas in our hearts which need to be cleansed.
From Romans 15:5-6: “May the God of steadfastness and encouragement grant you to live in harmony with one another, in accordance with Christ Jesus, so that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Francis Frangipane (born 1946) is an American pastor and Christian author.
With every rising tide
Life’s uncertainties hide
Darkness fueling mistrust
Tomorrow must adjust
Patience growing thinner
Emptiness serves dinner
Desires searching for peace
Light waiting to release
Stillness fills morning’s air
Hope replaces despair
Bitterness losing strength
Gentleness at arm’s length
Shadows fading away
Harmony finds its way
Heart dances with delight
Weariness taking flight
Destiny’s honest steps
Truth knocking at doorstep
Trust anchored, full of love
Unlocked grace shines above
From Proverbs 3:1-2: “My child, do not forget My teaching, but let your heart keep My commandments, for length of days and years of life and abundant welfare they will give you.”
Worshipping Father daily
Heart’s loyalty never meek
Witnessed through Christ’s faithfulness
Praising every truth He speaks
Embracing Father’s teachings
Righteousness fills Spirit’s flight
Commandments rise from Christ’s rock
Living through Word’s constant light
Tasting Father’s fruitful grace
Good Shepherd’s daily check-in
Each fiber of Spirit breathes
Nourishing goodness within
Trusting in Father’s wisdom
Spirit’s refreshment appears
Witness being one in Christ
Understanding always clear
Rising tides of Father’s peace
Filled with everlasting love
All chains of darkness vanquished
Knowing Christ resides above
From Proverbs 3:19-20: “The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding He established the heavens; by His knowledge the deeps broke open, and the clouds drop down the dew.”
Retreating
Waking up early
Catching up from yesterday—
Bit more snooze can’t hurt
Challenging
Hiking endless trails
“Invigorating” you say—
Always one more hill
Intervening
Daily plate too full
Unplugged social media—
Valued time freed up
Nature lives forever
By her Creator’s hand
Nourishing spirit guides
Sunrise greeting each day
Life revolves ‘round her grace
Lighting earthly journey
Gentle winds bring comfort
Music from nature’s band
Breathing with its rhythm
Grassy plains stretching far
Lofty mountains border
Sharing abounding life
Beauty arrives by air
Birds of many colors
Singing nature’s chorus
Majestic trees arise
Redwoods reaching heavens
Scaling fate’s boldest heights
Creator’s view from clouds
Seeing creatures below
Serving nature’s purpose
Rivers ever flowing
Dogged spirit guiding
Reaching each shining sea
God’s time always endures
Creation spawns nature
Breathing, living, endless
Originally published March, 2021.
From Psalm 90:1-2: “Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth or ever You had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.”
With each passing day
Our Father’s blessed Word
Offering faith’s dwelling place
Mankind’s righteousness shall be stirred
From distant mountains
Echoes of prophets past
Everlasting in faith’s heart
Yesterday’s breath arrives at last
Shards of light descend
Morning’s grace at sunrise
Enlisting heavenly peace
Attention to Calvary’s prize
Life in risen Christ
Darkness forever fades
Forgiving man’s trespasses
His mercy ready to cascade
Eternity breathes
Filled with His steadfast love
Witnessing Christ’s victory
Father’s glory fulfilled above
From Psalm 90:17: “Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and prosper for us the work of our hands—O prosper the work of our hands!”
Darkening clouds form
Tomorrow without light
Fractured hope moans
Breathing through each night
Sunrise blackened out
Opportunity stalls
Fractured hope sleeps
Feeling ever small
Foundation crumbling
Harmony’s rhythm lost
Fractured hope waits
Seeing future tossed
New avenues blocked
All trust shrinking away
Fractured hope mends
Sharing voice this day
Boldness awakens
Resilience glides ahead
Restored hope swells
Serving joy to spread
Confidence
Faith’s
Hope fulfilled
Reading Father’s Word
Embracing is world unseen
Assurance
Commitment
Faith’s
Promised tomorrow
Shadowing Resurrection’s light
Walking in Christ’s footprints
Obedience
Resilience
Faith’s
Delivered script
Impossible becoming possible
Hearing each angelic response
Opportunity
Hijacking right with wrong
Dark tides of temptation
Gathering amongst stormy seas
Crippling truth in any nation
Flipping integrity
Slippery path ahead
Bending every voice without truth
Transforming character’s beachhead
Hearing thoughts of reason
From truth’s “real” foundation
Standing upon solid granite
Lighting tomorrow’s narration
Lifting hope with each step
Opportunity’s flight
Navigating with renewed peace
Reversing darkness with foresight
From the words of American attorney and later evangelical leader, Charles Colson: “The greatest friend of truth is time; her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility.”
From Psalm 32:1-2: “Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Happy are those to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit.”
Lost in transgression’s shadows
Wilderness grows deeper
Seeking new direction
God sends His peacekeeper
Faith’s ebbing strength drying up
Darkness remains at hand
Kneeling with repentance
Light arrives where one stands
Jesus accepts confession
Anguish breaking apart
Delivering Word’s truth
Love fills another heart
Grace descends with Spirit’s breath
Thorns of sin die away
Receiving forgiveness
Righteousness fills God’s way
Dawn of new life rising
Eye of Christ upon thee
Surrounding with His peace
Reborn, forever free
From Psalm 32:8: “I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.”
