God is for us. I want you to remember that God is for us. Say those four words to yourself, “God is for us.” Remember that tomorrow morning when you don’t feel like He is. Remember that when you have failed. Remember that when you have sinned and guilt slams you to the mat.
From Romans 8:31-32: What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not withhold His own Son but gave Him up for all of us, how will He not with Him also give us everything else?”
From Psalm 118:24: “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
Each morning sunrise
Father’s gift to thee
Heaven’s brilliant skies
Mercy offers free
Coffee friends meeting
Father gathers all
Grace pours out greetings
Kindness fills each y’all
Kitchen’s window view
Father sharing peace
Each tender fescue
Life’s renewing lease
From each faithful seed
Father’s blessed prize
Harvest’s bounty feeds
Thoughts forever wise
Day’s fading sunset
Father always here
Night’s trusted cornet
Rhythm always clear
From Psalm 42:8: “By day the Lord commands His steadfast love, and at night His song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.”
From Psalm 30:5: “For His anger is but for a moment; His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning.”
Morning gathering
Hearing Christ’s invite
Come now, rest a spell
Witnessing His delight
Tasting each morning
Sweetness of His grace
Reading Father’s Word
Peace fills this very place
Blessed morning time
Taking faithful walk
Christ offers His love
Trusting salvation’s rock
Finding morning’s truth
Gospel’s foundation
Maturing in faith
Father’s new creation
Tomorrow morning
Gathering again
Precious time with Christ
Praising His lasting reign
From Lamentations 3:22-23: “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.”
Finding
Tomb empty
Many questions abound
Voice speaking with answers
Messiah
Walking
Emmaus Road
Shattered in darkness
Stranger shares His peace
Savior
Disciples
Confused, alone
Appearing among them
“Peace be with you”
Jesus
From John 10:10-11: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.”
Father almighty
Designing redemption’s plan
Actions never by chance
Good Shepherd, faith’s steady helmsman
Shepherd’s faith searches
Teaching His flock, hear My voice
Actions never by chance
Heavenly angels shall rejoice
Angelic choir sings
Rising from cold, empty tomb
Actions never by chance
Redeemer’s grace faithfully blooms
Redeemer sheds blood
Forgiving each transgression
Actions never by chance
Father blesses without question
Father’s greatest love
Offering His only Son
Actions never by chance
Forever, His will shall be done
From John 3:16-17: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not perish but may have eternal life. Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through Him.”
How many people are equipped to handle mistreatment after they’ve done right? Only Christians are equipped to do that. That is what makes believers stand out. That’s our uniqueness.
From Matthew 5:10: “Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
Our Heavenly Father, we rejoice and humbly receive your precious gift of a new day. Our hopes burn brighter as we give thanks for your blessing of this gift. Amen.
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Emerging each morning, a new dawn
Waiting outside our door, neatly wrapped
Walking next to us, God understands
Bringing us love, never feeling trapped
Designing His gift, a new day calls
Witnessing God’s deeds, each day unfolds
Allowing us, to live out each day
Feeling His Grace, hearts never grow old
Guarding us during times of trouble
Opening gates each day, His stronghold
Trusting in God, never forsaken
Singing His praises, humble yet bold
Kneeling and praying, as this day ends
Rejoicing, in all our Father sends
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From Psalm 9:10: “And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.”
Originally published May, 2020.
From 2 Peter 3:13: “But, in accordance with His promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.”
Lifetime of building
Man’s labors seem so bold
Smallish enterprises
Growing fragile and old
Christ’s building schemes last
Any cost, He equips
Trusted enterprises
Growing discipleship
Eternity calls
Grace building rescue’s net
Savior’s enterprises
Liquidating sin’s debts
Christ, building for more
Faith’s stalwart cornerstone
Righteous enterprises
Shaping mankind’s backbone
Passionate spirit
Every consuming fire
Heaven’s enterprises
Built, never to expire
This poem was influenced from these words of Scottish evangelist and Christian teacher, Oswald Chambers: “Jesus takes us over for His enterprises, His building schemes entirely, and no soul has any right to claim where he shall be put.”
Taking up my “cross” means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.
From Luke 9:23: “Then He said to them all, ‘If any wish to come after Me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow Me.'”
Arthur Walkington (A. W.) Pink (1886-1952) was an English Bible teacher and Christian writer. Following his death, many of his writings were well-received by readers. This turnabout established him as an influential evangelical author.
Planting
Faith’s seeds
Watered with grace
Nurtured with righteous spirit
Harvesting
Replacing
Empty promises
God’s living truth
Spirit opens His Word
Transforming
Stumbling
Darkened missteps
Kneeling at Calvary
Savior opens eternity’s light
Rising
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