Big Sky Buckeye

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Hope’s Faith

Posted on November 3, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From 1 Peter 1:6-7: “In this you rejoice, even if now for a little while you have had to suffer various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith—being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”

Blessed Jesus Christ

His mercy shares love

Brings forth faith’s new birth

Hope stirs from above

Resurrected Christ

His unfading light

He walks among us

Hope ready for flight

Revealed through Jesus

Grace walks within Him

Freed from sin’s darkness

Hope breathes with each hymn

Spirit filled by Christ

More precious than gold

Molds faith’s salvation

Hope rebuilds foothold

Trust in Jesus Christ

Father’s righteous Son

Called to embrace Him

Hope’s faith in the One

From 1 Peter 1:13: “Therefore prepare your minds for action; discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when He is revealed.”

Mercy Delivers

Posted on October 27, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From Psalm 107:1-2: “O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His steadfast love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, those He redeemed from trouble.”

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Facing journey’s many troubles

Wilderness darkness creeping in

Praying to heavens high above

God’s unshaken love, faith’s linchpin

Praising God for enduring grace

Thirsty hunger, now quenched and fed

Sharing thanks for every sunrise

Faith nourished with His daily bread

Witnessing God’s benevolence

His wondrous works shall never end

Turning deserts into rivers

Faithful courage shall now defend

Breaking free from sin’s chains of gloom

Salvation descends from heavens

Shattering enemy’s falsehoods

Taste of freedom, blessed with leaven

Redeeming from journey’s troubles

God’s mercy delivers His light

Covering landscape with His peace

Darkness gives up her final fight

From Psalm 107:8-9: “Let them thank the Lord for His steadfast love, for His wonderful works to humankind. For He satisfies the thirsty, and the hungry He fills with good things.”

Saint Augustine Quote

Posted on September 22, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

From Psalm 18:1-2: “I love you, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”

Heavenly Provisions

Posted on August 25, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From 1 Timothy 3:16-17: “Without any doubt, the mystery of godliness is great: He was revealed in flesh, vindicated in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among gentiles, believed in throughout the world, taken up in glory.”

Receiving Father’s love

Heavenly provisions

Learning His trusted ways

Fulfilled with hope’s vision

Living with Father’s peace

Righteousness always leads

Blessing journey ahead

Strengthened with mercy’s seed

Seeking Father’s counsel

Daily conversation

Linking up through prayer

Rejected temptation

Fulfilling Father’s joy

Spirit nurtures each soul

Coming to Lord Jesus

Sanctified, faith made whole

Completing Father’s work

Upon His foundation

Accepting light’s guidance

Restored through salvation

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From 1 Thessalonians 5:23: “May the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely, and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ The one who calls you is faithful, and He will do this.”

Monday Memories: Follow His Road Map

Posted on July 15, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From Proverbs 30:5: “Every word of God proves true; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.”

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Feeling weary and lost

How can any prevail?

Desolate road ahead

Actions will surely fail

Lost in darkness of life

Our Father lights the way

Filled with His righteousness

God’s road map saves our day

Our Lord’s Word speaking truth

Daily meditation

Bible’s meanings ring clear

Leading to salvation

Study God’s Holy Word

Share its hope and Good News

Trusting each promise

His commands, we must choose

Inhale, breathe it all in

Fed by the “Bread of Life”

Quenched by “Living Water”

Transforming daily life

From the words of American-born missionary and Christian theologian, E. Stanley Jones: “The Gospel is not so much a demand as it is an offer, an offer of new life to man by the grace of God.”

Originally published July, 2020.

Mercy’s Door (Elfchen Series #211)

Posted on July 12, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

Unlocking

Receiving

Father’s grace

Nourishing future hope

Flowing with Spirit’s guidance

Deliverance

Welcoming

Pursuing

Tomorrow’s peace

Fulfilling Father’s promises

Building faith’s mighty fortress

Salvation

Everlasting

Rescuing

From darkness

Resurrecting fallen Savior

Lighting with eternal life

Redemption

This series of poems (written in the German-inspired style of Elfchen or Elevenie) shares a total of eleven words in each poem, with a sequence by line of one, two, three, four, and one words.

Charles Stanley Quote

Posted on July 12, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

God didn’t bestow grace on us at the moment of salvation, only to leave us on our own to live the Christian life as best we can.

From Titus 2:11-12: “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly.”

Monday Memories: Redeeming Spirit

Posted on July 8, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From Isaiah 12:2: “Surely God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid, for the Lord God is my strength and my might; He has become my salvation.”

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To a world filling with harsh darkness

Our Heavenly Father wakens trust

God’s love conquers, crushing this starkness

Sending our Redeemer, always just

Jesus, the Messiah, walks the land

His Spirit deepens our mind and soul

We experience God, close at hand

Blood shed on a Cross, paying our toll

With every footprint Jesus makes

Walking forward, His bright light beckons

We follow with faith, make no mistake

Through our adversity, faith checks in

Enemy lurks, bringing temptation

Walking with Jesus, freed like a bird

In alignment with Him . . . Salvation!

Faithful “doers” of God’s Holy Word

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From Psalm 3:3-4: “But you, O Lord are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head. I cry aloud to the Lord, and He answers me from His Holy hill.”

Originally posted March, 2020.

Monday Memories: Learning, God’s Way

Posted on June 24, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From 1 Thessalonians 4:1: “Finally, brothers and sisters, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus that, as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God (as, in fact, you are doing), you should do so more and more.”

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God blesses us with opportunities to learn

Viewing our sinful ways, brings Him concern

Our Lord assembles His flock to learn His law

Witnessing our errant behavior with many flaws

We are encouraged to learn about God’s Word

Humbling ourselves, embracing faith now stirred

God creates each of us with simple, blessed minds

Acquiring wisdom from His Word, we gladly find

Wayward hearts and lost souls run to seek God

Taking time to learn His righteousness, all nod

Pursuing life’s errant ways, lost will be one’s fate

Our heavenly Father gathers many on this date

Our Lord delivers honest and equal justice for all

Learning to contribute good for others, is our call

God possesses sovereignty over all things

Conveying His message, truth will ring

We learn about Christ, His righteous ways

Staying with us to the end of our long day

Christ brings forward promises to be kind

Praying each day for mercy from His mind

Christ teaches at the temple, seeing God’s way

Bringing forward His Father’s Words, to say

Christ learns obedience, His Father knows

Taking our sins to a bloody Cross, He goes

Step forward and accept our Lord and Savior

Learning a new way, praise God’s selfless favor

God’s Word encourages us to listen and learn

Calling out to sinners, all of us stop and turn

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Originally published August, 2019.

Oswald Chambers Quote

Posted on June 24, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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Trust entirely in God, and when He brings you to the venture, see that you take it.

From Isaiah 12:2: “Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and will not be afraid, for the Lord is my strength and my might; He has become my salvation.”

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.

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Welcoming

Everlasting

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