8/28/16 Through 9/3/16

8/28/16 Through 9/3/16

Sunday

Your word, it comes in varied ways

To meet the challenge of the days

Attentive ear and watchful eye

Will recognize and prophesy

But pride will blind the way we see

Through simple, plain, humility

And arrogance will close the ear

To what alone, the lowly hear.

Lord, crucify this mortal flesh

And with a patient love refresh

With eyes that see and ears that hear

Let me always find You near.

Monday

Bewildered in his prison cell

The Baptist asked the Lord to tell

If He was the promised One,

Messiah, and God's only son?

The lame can walk, the blind can see,

Those captive in their sin set free

No longer think your earthly way

But pay great heed to what I say.

Tuesday

With great authority He speaks

And wonders at His hand He piques

The interest of the average man

And starts the Pharisees to plan.

Wednesday

What can the young and weak be fed?

For men of flesh are nearly dead

A solid meal they can't digest

But bread and milk, I would suggest.

Thursday

His sovereignty extends to all

The things that we can see

And far beyond our earthly ball

To all eternity

For to the Lord, belongs the earth

And all with which it's filled

So love Him now for all you're worth

And so His kingdom build.

Friday

Lord grant the wisdom that I seek

Replace the anger, make me meek.

Replace my greed and avarice

With ready love that's generous

Turn envy to contentedness

And gluttony, to wanting less

Instead of flesh that's filled with lust

Give me a heart of love and trust.

Procrastinating, lazy ways

Replace with fertile, fruitful days

Destroy in me, that evil pride

And keep me humbly at Your side

Saturday

What wonder in the skies above

That all up there was made for love

The worlds within the stars that shine,

the smallness of this life of mine.

Yet somehow in this vast expanse

Amid this fine and ordered dance

The One who made this speckled sea

Has come to save and die for me

For love beyond the breadth of skies

To every man this love applies

If I could learn to love like this

My life would be eternal bliss