1/8/23 Through 1/14/23

 1/8/23 Through 1/14/23

Sunday

Come ye all from every land

Obey His word and each command

See the King anew has come

For God has sent His only Son.

Dawn has broken from on high

His star has risen in the sky

Let kings on earth be humbled now

And kings of earth before Him bow.

Oh star of Bethlehem rejoice

All listen now to hear His voice

The King of kings we must obey

For all on earth shall see decay.

But those who place their trust in He

Forever fresh will always be.

The moth and worm on earth destroy

But none can fade what we enjoy.

Monday

The way has been prepared quite well

Of this the Bible stories tell

So too, by those who came before

And taught to love forevermore.

But choice in every life is made

To follow how the Savior bade

Or choose a way of selfish sin

Not welcoming the Spirit in.

I pray that I may so prepare

A way that shows how much I care

A way that leads the young to know

The way of love that they should go.

Tuesday

All evil subject to his word

The demons all around have heard

That One  with great authority

Has come to set the captives free.

Wednesday

Not one that suffers more than He

But those rejecting of His plea

To take His yoke and burden light

And find the pathway through the night.

For suffering that comes our way

Can be for us the light of day

To make us more and more like He

Who died for us upon the tree.

Thursday

For all you've seen and yet you turn

When will this people ever learn?

The signs are clear, the Savior's come

Yet still the soul remains as numb.

What work could e're convince the mind

The gift of sight for one born blind,

A corpse arising from the dead,

Or One's true flesh as simple bread?

The poor believe because they see.

In all His works, the way to Thee

The perfect love that soothes the soul

And makes the broken sinner whole.

So wait no longer come and know

The way to peace and love we go.

By giving all we thus receive

The boundless love to which we cleave.

Friday

We enter into rest with Him

By turning from the dark and dim.

By trusting in the way He leads

And taking daily what He feeds

For sure our sins He does forgive

That we might truly learn to live

With mercy always ready found

Where Christ as King alone is crowned.

It's there that rest is truly known

Where love is always ready shown

Where all will place the other fore

And never heard are sounds of war.

Saturday

Two simple words of "Follow Me"

Would set the tax collector free

To each the same two words are said

That hungry souls be richly fed.

How sharp the words that slice between

The joints and marrow cutting clean

With soul and spirit severed there

To show our nakedness so bare

His word when sifted every day

Will prune and trim in that same way

And draw us always further in

To turn us always far from sin.