Big Sky Buckeye

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Monday Memories: Finding New Life

Posted on February 24, 2025 by bigskybuckeye

From 2 Corinthians 11:13-14: “For such boasters are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder! Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.”

Facing life’s harshest trials

Walking uphill in shadows

Keeping on the proper trail

Coveting greener meadows

Suffering darkest ordeals

Praying for divine advice

Listening for God’s response

Willing to pay any price

Hiding off the path, waiting

Offering cunning, false hope

Sliding into Satan’s net

Reaching up for rescue’s rope

Clutching God’s forgiving hand

Leaving the enemy’s grip

Finding new life with the Lord

Walking in His fellowship

From Romans 6:22-23: “But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Originally published September, 2020.

Monday Memories: Abandon Your Ways

Posted on January 20, 2025 by bigskybuckeye

From John 3:5: “Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.”

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Living a dark life of sin

Failing to follow God’s Word

Walking as slaves in the flesh

“Abandon your ways” . . . unheard

Falling, ignoring our Lord

Leaving Him for empty thoughts

Taking our path, darkness prowls

Sinful hunger calls the shots

Consumed by life in the flesh

There awaits a better way

God never abandons us

Offering His Grace each day

God gives Himself entirely

Spirit marches to our hearts

Delivers His greatest gift

God’s Son offers a fresh start

Christ becomes our foundation

Jesus walking where we walk

Exchanging His life for us

Shepherd gathering His flock

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.”

Originally published September, 2020.

Defining Hope

Posted on October 20, 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.”

From furnace of suffering

Comes self-reflection’s light

Joined with eternal heat

Burning away chaff in its sight

Trials open one’s closed eyes

Wakened senses now see

Embraced with Father’s grace

Witnessing what hope should be

Faith in mercy of Father

Reveals salvation’s gift

Undefiled, unfading

Transforming hope’s precious shift

Believe redemption’s promise

Testifies to Christ’s love

Destined to break sin’s chains

Raising Good News from above

Trust in Jesus, now rejoice

Tested by hottest fire

Revealed lasting glory

Defining hope, faith acquires

From 1 Peter 1:8-9: “Although you have not seen Him, you love Him, and even though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, for you are receiving the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.”

Trusted Opportunity (Elfchen Series #222)

Posted on October 18, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

Journey

Seeking

Father’s door

Hiding in darkness

Overcome with shameful sin

Finding

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Repentance

Finding

Father’s door

Replacing selfish motives

Approach with sincere humbleness

Knocking

Restoration

Knocking

Father’s door

Releasing earthy idols

Transformed heart, knocking again

Opening

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John Owen Quote

Posted on October 11, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

There is no way of deliverance from the state and condition of being in the flesh, but by the Spirit of Christ.

From Romans 8:3-4: “For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and to deal with sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”

John Owen (1616-1683) was an English Puritan church leader and theologian.

Messiah’s Light

Posted on September 29, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From Isaiah 53:9: “They made his grave with the wicked and his tomb with the rich, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.”

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Born before light breathes

God’s master blueprint

Only darkness exists

Waiting, His Son’s footprint

Sin breathes at Eden

Perfect light shattered

Tomorrow’s harsh darkness

Righteousness now scattered

From garden’s shadows

Bloody cross awaits

Savior’s light journeys on

From heaven’s open gate

God’s people wander

Darkness covers world

Divine plan’s fulfillment

Messiah’s light unfurled

Light moves against sin

Nailed to rugged tree

Every transgression paid

Saving grace sets man free

From Isaiah 53:10: “Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with affliction. When you make his life an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring and shall prolong his days; through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.”

John Greenleaf Whittier Quote

Posted on September 15, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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Thine to work as well as pray, clearing thorny wrongs away; plucking up the weeds of sin, letting heaven’s warm sunshine in.

From Isaiah 61:11: “For as the earth brings forth its shoots and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.”

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was an American poet. His Quaker background entrusted him to advocate for the abolition of slavery in the United States.

Elizabeth George Quote

Posted on August 28, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

From 1 John 2:1-3: “My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. Now by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we obey His commandments.”

Elizabeth George (born 1944) is an American Christian author and speaker.

Charles Swindoll Quote

Posted on July 7, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

Pride, fear, resentment, and habit are all tough evidences of the flesh. But those who are being shaped into the image of Christ do not go the way of the flesh.

From 1 Timothy 4:7-8: “Train yourself in godliness, for, while physical training is of some value, godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.”

Hope in Godliness

Posted on July 3, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From 1 Timothy 6:6-8: “Of course, there is great gain in godliness combined with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it, but if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.”

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Waking to another day

Spurning Father’s safety rope

This world demands perfection

Without Heaven’s faithful hope

Feeling pressure with each step

Witnessing ungodliness

Imperfect world falling apart

Father’s hope in godliness

Slowing down journey’s high speed

Pausing to count each blessing

Hope pursues His righteousness

Father’s truth now addressing

Discovering contentment

Filling hope with timely grace

Senseless desires abandoned

Father’s peace comes to embrace

Cherishing Oneness in hope

Sending trusted Light to bear

Forgiveness from divine Rock

Father’s Son shall truly care

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From 1 Timothy 6:13-14: “In the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in His testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you to keep the commandment without spot or blame until the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

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