1/14/18 Through 1/20/18

1/14/18 Through 1/20/18

Sunday

What are you looking for day after day? 

Come to me now, and I'll show you the way

Avoid immorality, cleanse from within

The Spirit dwells not in the presence of sin 

Come see where I live, and the path that I tread

No place for the Just One to lay down His head

But find in this way a great love never known

A savior who takes all your sin as His own

A Suffering Servant who answers the call

Who conquers our sin by giving His all

Every drop of His blood poured out on the ground

Forgiveness and mercy for sinners is found.

Monday

To carry out His word would mean

Annihilate the evil seen

Within your greedy eyes this day

Destroy what pulls your heart astray

Don't leave alive a single strand

Of evil that the Lord has banned

But turn to God in total trust

And turn away from every lust

Tuesday

God sees so differently than man

He sees the things no other can

What's in the heart, what makes us tick

How hard against the goad we kick

He judges what no other knows,

Far more than what the surface shows

Our courage and our trust in God

Regardless of the ways we're flawed.

Wednesday

The giant wins without a fight

When none will face him out of fright

It takes a ruddy trusting lad

Without the fear the others had

A lad whose trust was in the Lord

And not the armour or the sword

To face the beast in confidence

To pay no heed to insolence

His faith in God the lad would bring

Then armed with just the stone and sling

He hurled a stone into his head

The giant dropped at once lay dead

We too could slay the giant's might

If we but had the will to fight

Then lived our lives in holiness

And put our trust in righteousness

Thursday

In jealousy the demon speaks

With pride, his favorite techniques

To bring the foolish down to hell

Where they, with him will suffer well.

The antidote to selfish pride

Is place yourself along His side

Then learn to love in humble ways

And give to God His rightful praise

Friday

Anointing grants a dignity

That many now will fail to see

But in the oil we recognize

A grace not present otherwise.

Saturday

Why would those so close to Him

Be out to sieze the Lord?

What in His words could they find grim

Or not in Love's accord?

Were they in some way jealous now

Like pharisee and scribe?

That ways of love they'd not allow

This Jesus to describe?

Perhaps the crowds around they found

Disruptive to their norm

And they would have the Word be bound

Than possibly reform

Unknown to me their reasons why

They say He lost His mind

It's through His word we learn to die

And then true peace to find.