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Monday Memories: Suffering No More

Posted on February 26, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

Reading from Psalm 38, one finds David’s words as he asks for God’s healing. This poem’s verses bring to the forefront an active voice with feeling, praying, finding, healing, praising, and seeing.

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Feeling darkness

Feeling unknown

Feeling empty

Feeling alone

Praying with faith

Praying this Psalm

Praying for hope

Praying for calm

Finding God’s love

Finding what’s heard

Finding new life

Finding His Word

Healing these wounds

Healing this soul

Healing my heart

Healing me whole

Praising Father

Praising accords

Praising heavens

Praising my Lord

Seeing the Cross

Seeing the light

Seeing Christ’s love

Seeing God’s might

From Psalm 38:15: “But it is for you, O Lord, that I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.”

Originally published June, 2020.

Samuel Rutherford Quote

Posted on February 26, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always look about for the wine.

From Luke 22:19-20: “Then He took a loaf of bread, and when He had given thanks He broke it and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is My body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.’ And He did the same with the cup after supper, saying, ‘This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.'”

Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661) was a Scottish pastor and Christian theologian.

Father’s Vision

Posted on February 25, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From Isaiah 55:9: “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

Hearing of His timeless grace

Who creates all living things

Following Father’s vision

Carried upon eagle’s wings

Thirsting for grace-filled water

Forgiveness delivers light

Returning to Father’s flock

Redemption’s bridge now in sight

Breaking every sin-filled chain

Truth offers love for new day

Seeing path to Father’s grace

Evil darkness sent away

Aligning grace with His Word

Purpose rises, Savior’s peace

Piloting with Father’s eyes

Hope rekindled with faith’s lease

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From Ephesians 3:20-21: “Now to Him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”

Nicky Gumbel Quote

Posted on February 25, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings.

From Matthew 19:24-26: “‘Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.’ When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astounded and said, ‘Then who can be saved?’ But Jesus looked at them and said, ‘For mortals it is impossible, but for God all things are possible.'”

Nicky Gumbel (born 1955) is an English-born Anglican pastor and Christian author.

Trusting in God (Elfchen Series #191)

Posted on February 23, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

Navigating Troubles

Faithfulness

Righteous actions

Emerging with strength

God’s river of grace

Goodness

Taking Our Place

Justice

Deserved, but

Kneeling before God

Cross bears every sin

Forgiveness

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Faith’s Lantern

Darkness

Hope hidden

Hearing God’s voice

Rising over every valley

Light

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quote

Posted on February 23, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

From 1 Peter 5:5-6: “And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for ‘God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.’ Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time.”

German-born Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a Lutheran pastor, theologian, and anti-Nazi dissident. Many of his writings express the role of Christianity in mankind’s daily lives. He paid the ultimate price for his activism against the Nazi regime during World War II.

Never by Chance

Posted on February 21, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From Proverbs 8:1-2: Does not wisdom call and understanding raise her voice? On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand.”

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Never by chance

At life’s crossroads

Precious wisdom

God’s mercy sowed

Listen closely

Righteousness speaks

Treasured wisdom

Hope climbs each peak

Finding knowledge

Straight from God’s voice

Divine wisdom

Cultivates choice

Advice offered

Directs each thought

Trusted wisdom

Faith’s lessons taught

Heaven comes down

Final grace waits

Savior’s wisdom

Calvary’s fate

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From Proverbs 8:14: “I have good advice and sound wisdom; I have insight; I have strength.”

Henry Ward Beecher Quote

Posted on February 21, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

From Proverbs 17:22: “A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.”

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) was an American pastor and abolitionist.

Times of Challenge

Posted on February 18, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From 2 Samuel 1:2: “On the third day, a man came from Saul’s camp with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground and did obeisance [extending respect].”

Facing distress

Surging downpour

Waves of darkness

Always, facing more

Confronting fate

Reeling with pain

Enemy waits

Always, comes again

Praying to God

Hearing His voice

Times of challenge

Always, offers choice

Reaching to thee

Grasping His hand

Deliverance

Always, God commands

Reading His Word

Lighting each lamp

Promise rings true

Always, in God’s camp

Finding refuge

Forgiving sins

Redemption breathes

Always, grace comes in

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From 2 Samuel 22:29: “Indeed, you are my lamp, O Lord; the Lord lightens my darkness.”

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Navigating Troubles

Taking Our Place

Faith’s Lantern

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