8/7/16 Through 8/13/16

8/7/16 Through 8/13/16

Sunday

Hard at work for what can't last

The same old story as the past

Hanging on to that which flees

Will never be the way to please.

Monday

Does not the Teacher pay the tax?

If you, but only, knew the facts.

The subjects are exempt, you see

The foreigners, must pay the fee.

But it will be just as you wish

We'll get the coin from in the fish.

Tuesday

The Word can sweet as honey be

The nourishment of those who see

But most will never read the book,

And judge the Word by how we look.

The greatest pages that they see

Will be the children close to Thee

For know the Kingdom that they seek

Is filled with humble and with meek

Wednesday

A given life, the seed that's sown

The surest way of love that's known

To sway a heart, and change a mind

In hopes that faith, they also find.

When scarcely sown we scarcely reap

To others then the faith looks cheap

But when we pay the greatest price

The faith is found much more than nice.

Thursday

Forgiving calls us to repent

And with this call, we all are sent

To let the world know how to live

To turn from sin, and sin forgive.

Friday

Found naked and without a home

Left on the streets and all alone

I bathed and dressed you, called you Mine

Prepared you for a love divine

Your hair I set with braids and curls

Your neck I draped in finest pearls

In robes of silk embroidery

I made you more than royalty

A beauty pure, but not complete

Your beauty squandered on the street

A beauty made for love divine

Your beauty cast among the swine

One made for love, but lost in lust

Finds no one on this earth to trust

But shame and silence enter in

When out of love, I pardon sin.

Friday PM

Here I come not just to pray

But here to listen and obey.

A quiet place to hear Your voice

And ponder how to make a choice

Lord strip away the greed and pride

And all that clings to me inside

Let me detach from all these things

And see what pure devotion brings.

Saturday

The childlike You call Your own

In them we find Your joy made known

No care on earth disturbs them when

They find Your favor once again