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Monday Memories: His Right Hand

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From Psalm 139:9-10:  “If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea, even there Your hand shall lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me fast.”

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Story of doomed community

Losing its way, darkness surrounds

Hunger fueling gang violence

Crying out, injustice abounds

 

Life crushed in spirit, wandering

Wrecking faith, living defeated

Racism walks with extremism

Bringing sin’s death, feeling cheated

 

From dark despair, running away

Running to us, God with His grace

Love and mercy fill empty cups

Accepting His gift, let’s embrace

 

God’s right hand covers this land

Striking out envy, hate, and greed

Spirit finds us lost in life’s fog

Plowing under each sin-filled seed

 

Chaos no longer shatters dreams

Offering true, forgiving peace

God’s right hand, never grows weary

Lifting up lives, shall never cease

 

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From Psalm 89:13-14:  “You have a mighty arm; strong is Your hand, high Your right hand.  Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before You.”

Originally published March, 2021.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quote

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God did not make us perfect Christians in one stroke. He calls us as we are, and only His grace makes us what we are not.

From 1 Corinthians 15:9-10:  “For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I but the grace of God that is with me.

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.

Jonathan Byrd Quote

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Whatever I treasure the most will control my heart. Whatever controls my heart will control my behavior. May God be my treasure. He is big enough.

From Isaiah 40:12, 18: “Who has measured the waters of the sea in the hollow of His hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? To whom, then, will you liken God, or what likeness compare with Him?”

Jonathan Byrd (born 1978) is an American professional golfer. He is known for integrating his Christian faith into his daily life as well as his golf career.

John Lancaster Spalding Quote

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Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.

From 1 Peter 5:6-7: “Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time. Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.”

John Lancaster Spaulding was an American author and poet. He was a prolific writer about Christian themes and education.

Father’s Steady Hand

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From Psalm 48:12-14: “Walk about Zion; go all around it; count its towers; consider well its ramparts; go through its citadels, that you may tell the next generation that this is God, our God forever and ever.  He will be our guide forever.”

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During moments of darkness
Praying to Father above
Heaven’s light breaks through
Trust nourishes heart with His love

Accepting His divine grace
Following Father’s roadmap
Heaven’s light shall lead
Away from enemy’s sand trap

Escaping from parched landscape
Grasping Father’s steady hand
Heaven’s light beholds
Forever marked, steadfast faith stands

Pursuing His love-filled peace
Revealing Father’s new hope
Heaven’s light spreads out
Reinforced hold of mercy’s rope

Embracing eternal view
Delighting in Father’s ways
Heaven’s light holds firm
Destiny’s truth descends ablaze
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From Isaiah 58:11: “The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your needs in parched places and make your bones strong, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water whose waters never fail.”

Monday Memories: Grace Taking Root

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From John 1:16-17:  “From His fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.  The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”

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Best and worst of times

God’s grace always chimes

 

Loving and caring

Promises bearing

 

God remains at hand

Faith and hope shall stand

 

Seeking empty hearts

Molding time’s restart

 

Life’s melody plays

Offer Him our praise

 

God’s grace taking root

Peace filling love’s flute

 

Gloom and doom appear

Allow Him to steer

 

God’s love shows He cares

Guiding day’s affairs

 

Hope’s beacon awaits

In His hands, our fate

 

Witness as His child

Life no longer wild

 

Forgiveness and love

Shared from God above

 

God’s grace shapes life’s frame

Praise His Holy name 

 

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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.”

This poem is inspired from some past entries in my “Take-Aways” journal.  Each entry is based upon something read and studied in a morning devotional.

Originally published March, 2021.

A. B. Simpson Quote

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It is His joy that remains in us that makes our joy full.

From Romans 15:13:  “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

A. B. (Albert Benjamin) Simpson (1843-1919) was a Canadian-born pastor, theologian, and Christian author.  He founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance.

Heavenly Blessings (Elfchen Series #297)

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Healed

Reaching

Beyond shadows

Hardened heart restored

Walking in Father’s light

Salvation

Pardoned

Accepting

Father’s mercy

Heart’s rhythm cleansed

Each transgression blotted out

Forgiveness

Restored

Creating

Enlightened heart

Spirit refreshes thee

Father heals faith’s fabric

Peace

Billy Graham Quote

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We are never more fulfilled than when our longing for God is met by His presence in our lives.

From Psalm 16:11:  “You show me the path of life.  In your presence there is fullness of joy; in your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”

Billy Graham (1918-2018) was an American Christian evangelist.

Oswald Chambers Quote

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God’s end is to enable me to see that He can walk on the chaos of my life just now.

From Mark 6:49-50:  “But when they saw Him walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost and cried out,  for they all saw Him and were terrified. But immediately He spoke to them and said, ‘Take heart, it is I; do not be afraid.'”

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish evangelist and Christian teacher.  Following his death from an illness while in Egypt during World War I, his wife took on the task of transcribing the detailed notes she had written from his lectures and sermons.  Gertrude Hobbs Chambers’ efforts resulted in the publication in 1924 of MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST.  I frequently read from this devotional, and it has greatly deepened my faith and understanding of God’s Word.