9/20/26 Through 9/26/26

 9/20/26 Through 9/26/26

Sunday

For long and many labored hours

In finite terms, what should be ours

Is more than tardy do receive

But infinite, we don't perceive

When infinite the daily wage

Our difference won't move the gauge

For all receive far more than due

And none have worked as hard as You

No Earthly good is ever owned

By any more than one alone

The more the all have claim to each

The less, for mine, a one can reach

Not so with gifts from God above

He has no limits for His love

For each of us shall all receive

And not a one with less perceive

Then even as we give away

The more and more we find each day

An inexhaustible supply

When Earthly ways we crucify

Monday

One weighed and found wanting, the story of man

Apostles and prophets, according to plan

Yes, all are found wanting, for none here receive

The height that each man was meant to achieve

Our sin is the obstacle holding us down

The source of all sadness and source of our frown

We reach for the fruit just to make it our own

And find the corruption our hearts have made known

Our selfishness seen in the words that we say

And also revealed in the way that we pray

They focus on self, while ignoring the King

So, surely there's none but division they bring

Somehow, it's in love we must speak every day

To conquer the self and to follow the Way

To draw forth the sinner, repentance to show

That peace in this world the sinner may know

Tuesday

The word of the day is to hear and obey

There's nothing so precious to God

So, come to me near so that clearly I hear

And know of the way I must trod

Be guide on the way, so that never I stray

Observing Your law to the tee

Your every command is just where I will stand

Your light on the pathway for me.

The truth I will choose so that never I lose

Salvation, right judgment, and peace

No foolishness lead to dysfunction and greed

My love for another not cease

My heart like a thing in the hand of the King

It flows any way He desires

The way of a man will not follow His plan

If listen he does to the liars.

Wednesday

Your word, oh Lord, will light the way

You guide me safely all the day

Remove the lies that tempt me to 

Reject a single word from You

From evil ways steer clear my feet

Your every word to me be sweet

Discernment comes with light from You

To guide me in whate'er I do.

I want no more than just my share.

Let truth alone become my fare

So poverty can't sway the mind

Nor riches, pride, within me bind

For You alone my soul desires

Your every word rekindles fires

Inflaming love before unknown

In every way, Your glory shown

Thursday

So much we seek is worth but naught

So little truly new

But every word that Jesus taught

Could spark a change in you

The haughty cannot see beyond

The here and now each day

But on the humble man has dawned

A bright and joyful ray

A light to see beyond the grave

To what was meant for man

No need for one to scrimp and save

What rots within our plan

Your mind so far above our own

Where things are truly new

The all on Earth that man could own

Cannot compare to You

So, change this heart to seek but You

And prosper every day

Yes, change my short and crooked view

To see the dawning ray.

Friday

The key is know what time it is

The time to make our life be His

The time to put our pride away

And focus on our final day

The time to recognize the King

To good and righteousness to cling

A time to all the bling destroy

And time to holy prayer employ

When once the King is recognized

Whate'er distracts must be despised

Our thoughts of how the world should be

Must fall in line with those of Thee.

Saturday

Afraid to question Him, they shied

To fit Him to their mold, they tried

Unwilling to believe the word

That from the mouth of Truth they heard

Too often, I refuse to ask 

Afraid of what might be the task

A coward, fearing of the pain

I must endure to find the gain

No Easter without Friday first

No comfort dares to slake the thirst

For that we have alone above

For truth and goodness, beauty, love.

With courage, we must face the day

And for His saving grace, but pray

United to the Cross we find

The peace of that eternal kind.