1/22/23 Through 1/28/23

 1/22/23 Through 1/28/23

Sunday

The people in darkness have seen a great light

How accustomed they'd grown to the shadows of night

But light has dispelled all the darkness around

The Way, The Truth, and The Life have been found.

Monday

A work so vast no mind can know

The way the toes or fingers grow,

Or how the eye, by light can see

Or why the mind in darkness be.

Who gives us rights but God alone

The One whom all our parts has sewn

As one in ways that all can see

But one of still great mystery?

What foolish pride in sinful man

To think that he, the creature can

Make rules for what is right and wrong

When he's the weak, and not the Strong.

Tuesday

Behold, I come to do Your will

Not seeking only after thrill

But seeking that Your kingdom come

With greater depths of love to plumb.

My sacrifice is naught to You 

What carries weight is what I do..

If I but listen and obey

You hear and answer when I pray.

Wednesday

Conversion of Saul was God's mighty deed

With light and with thunder, He planted the seed.

The light shone around him and blinded was he,

The Voice in the thunder was Jesus you see.

Not quite as dramatic, each personal call,

But just as specific He makes to us all.

Examine in honesty now if you dare

How light of the conscience has made you aware

That change is in order to follow His will

So, have you been docile, or one stubborn still?

Though not in a thunder, but clear as a bell

He speaks to us all with a story to tell.

All you have is a gift that was given by Me.

Proper use of your gifts is the happiness key.

If you listen and follow the way that I show,

My peace and My joy you surely will know.

Much hardship, for certain, you'll have to endure

But fire-refining is what makes you pure.

And purity only can enter My rest

I call you to be, My own and your best.

Thursday

Be strong in your faith and share it around

By placing your lamp on a stand it is found.

When dark is expelled, in light it is seen

How wrong the ways of the world have been.

Titus and Timothy, Men of the Lord

Upon whom the grace of the Spirit out-poured

Were light to the nations and signs from above

Whose embers were stirred to a flame out of love.

The task now for you and for me is the same

To preach to the world of His glorious name.

Of Jesus, that men in their hate crucified,

Who rose in much glory after He died.

Each person's a lamp that's created to shine

Whether brightness is dimmer or greater than mine.

What counts is we set it aloft so they see,

The light is but Christ, and nothing is me.

Friday

In comfort, "Endurance," just rolls off the tongue.

Not so, for the ones the poor are among,

Who lose all they have and yet still they remain

Enduring discomfort, annoyance, and pain.

The true are the ones who rewarded will be,

Not those who gave up and retreated from Me.

For only the patient can bear with the cross

Counting all riches and comforts as loss.

Saturday

So who do wind and sea obey,

But He who fashioned from the clay?

No other orders nature round

For we, our God, have truly found.

Who, in the midst of storm at sea

Could rest as One in perfect glee,

Content in slumber, lying down

When others fear that they may drown?

The Master of the earth and sky

Is One alone who stands so high.

With simple words, bestilling there

The mighty sea and tempest air.