12/30/18 Through 1/5/19

12/30/18 Through 1/5/19

Sunday

The family forms the basic cell

Of culture and the world as well.

Societies are said to be

Reflections of the family.

So look around and see its true,

There's quite a lot of work to do,

If we would like a culture free

Of evil and iniquity.

So turn again and start today

To change the world in some small way

A well-completed daily chore

Could be the key we're looking for.

Monday

Before there was, there was I AM.

He came not for, the world to damn.

But came for life, that it be filled,

As first the Father's thought had willed.

Along with John we testify

He's not some prophet passing by,

But light, true light, that shows to all

The wonderous nature of their call.

Tuesday

A heart that ponders all He does

The heart of Mary always was.

And so she found the Father's will

Whose every wish she follows still.

We too could glimpse the Father's mind

If we became the pond'ring kind

And ruminated on the Word

Then acted on the voice we heard.

The key to hearing well His word

Is acting on each one we've heard.

For each is like a stair that brings

Us closer to the King of kings.

But if we hear and don't obey

It's like we stop along the way.

Then back again begin to slide

As we again succumb to pride.

Wednesday

We he comes, the Savior named

How could I help, but not be shamed,

To see the One who died for me

That came in such humility?

Our God who took on human form,

When in the lowly stable born.

The maker of the universe,

In flesh, took on the human curse.

And broke the chains that bind us in

Our lives of selfishness and sin,

To set us free in love to know

What God intended long ago.

Thursday

If John had testified so clear

Why is it then, they did not hear?

Why listen and then circumvent

The clear and simple call, repent?

Our hope lies not in righteousness

But in our will to now confess

Our wickedness and haughty crimes,

Committed now so many times.

No hope is found in hanging on

To that in me that should be gone,

But hope is found in One who came

To shoulder all our sinful blame.

Friday

Behold the Lamb of God

Corrects in us what's flawed

So you must come and see

The gifts He has for thee.

No sinner can enjoy

The gifts that we employ

But come, and you will see

The gifts he has for thee

And bring the ones you know,

To them, Messiah show

For they must also see

The gifts He has for thee.

Saturday

The way to know love is to look at the cross

Creator of all, counting all as but loss.

Esteem of the soul far surpassing all things

Through passion and death, to salvation, He brings.

What are we to know, but to love all we can,

And to humble ourselves to fulfill His great plan.

He works through the lowly, with love as their goal,

To guide, and to teach us just how to be whole.