1/21/24 Through 1/27/24

 1/21/24 Through 1/27/24

Sunday

Each called to change our ways yet more

More now than in the days before.

To ever seek to love like He

Who spread His arms upon the Tree.

To give completely all we own

To make the love of Jesus known.

We ne'er can think that we've arrived

If some we know are yet deprived.

Monday 

So what amid the words You say

Is meant for me this special day?

What morsel should I ponder well

And then in rhyming words retell?

That evil falls when truth arrives

Transforming docile, faithful lives,

And truth exposes evil men

Who plot their gain with lies again.

All lies perpetuate more lies

But truth will be the guide for wise.

For truth alone, the demons fear

And demons flee when Truth is near.

The babe within the womb, it's true

Has personhood like me and you

And life so precious when destroyed

Creates a haunting empty void.

What demons call a "right to choose"

The truth reveals a life we lose.

Denying truth can't make it so,

But only serves for future woe.

Tuesday

Mother and sister and brother to Me

Are they that obey in attempt to be free.

The word I have spoken, the voice that you hear

Will draw you in love and cast out all fear.

Don't listen with interest and then fail to act,

Obedience measures the love you exact.

My family is made of the ones who obey,

Who listen quite well when they kneel down to pray.

Wednesday

I too, a house would like to build

If that be what the Father willed.

I'd like to have an honored name,

To be of everlasting fame.

But that's not how the Author works,

He deals in mystery and quirks.

He grants what ere the heart desires

But not the way the heart aspires.

Far greater ways He has in mind

But ways that only humble find.

So, help me leave my thoughts behind

At last, the Father's will to find.

Thursday

Chosen as one to hear His voice

To know His will and make your choice

To spread His word both far and wide

To love the One you 'fore denied.

The task belongs to all who see

Whose scales have fallen off of thee

Whom light has shone around to see

The truth of One who died for thee.

All share the body's heavy load

To water well the seed we sowed,

To teach in ways that draw the mind

Magnetically, the truth to find.

As salt and light, to lead the way

Creating thirst with all we say.

Enlightening the lost we found

And spreading Truth to all around.

Friday

To each a duty every day

To listen well and then obey

To share the word received in love

And point the way to God above.

We know not how the seed will grow

For that is God's, not ours to know.

Our task is spread it far and wide

With all our deeds, on God relied.

Some grand and some more beautiful,

But each a way quite suitable

To where we are along the way

And what He asks of you today.

Saturday

So quick to see another's sin

But blinded to our own

We fail to stop and look within

To have our sin be known.

Oh, Holy Spirit set a fire

Illumining inside

Expose the dark and murky mire

That often I've denied.

Create a heart that's clean and pure

Replace my heart of stone.

Give me love to long endure

And make Your ways my own.