Best Backsliding Poems
September 5 Scripture Meditations Based on Zechariah 1-8
Key Verse – Zechariah 1:6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR DEALING WITH ME BY YOUR LOVE
Thank You for dealing with me by Your love’s compassionate ways
Despite my sinfulness against Your holy praise
Along my indulgence toward worldly plays…
Please forgive me of my iniquities through Your sanctification-grace.
Thank You for dealing with me by Your love’s constant mercy
Despite my unfaithfulness against Your helpful consistency
Along my laxity toward slothful complacency…
Please pardon me of my indolence through Your conversion-clemency.
Thank You for dealing with me by Your love’s disciplining chastisement
Despite my rebelliousness against Your serene encouragement
Along my stubbornness toward wayward impairment…
Please correct me of my disobedience through Your admonition-involvement.
Thank You for dealing with me by Your love’s delightful pleasure
Despite my unmindfulness against Your offered fellowship’s treasure
Along my preference toward humanistic leisure…
Please transform me from my apathy through Your kindness-pressure.
Thank You for dealing with me by Your love’s guiding wisdom
Despite my foolishness against Your heavenly kingdom
Along my ignorance toward doubt-filled boredom…
Please unchain me from my selfishness through Your Bible truth-freedom.
Thank You for dealing with me by Your love’s gentle care
Despite my hardheadedness against Your watchful stare
Along my backsliding toward destructive nightmare…
Please pull me from my downfall through Your might-welfare.
Thank You for dealing with me by Your love’s supreme authority
Despite my haughtiness against Your dominion’s authority
Along my hypocrisy toward futile vanity…
Please deliver me from arrogance through Your leadership-majesty.
September 5, 2022
April 15 Scripture Meditations Based on Nehemiah 9-11
Key Verse – Nehemiah 9:7 Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham.
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING ME
Thank You for choosing me toward sin-separation
Allowing me to admit my iniquities before You with sincere consecration
Letting Your forgiveness work through my repentant confession
So I can forsake abomination-corruption’s transgression.
Thank You for choosing me toward law-book reading
Allowing me to seek Your will with Your leading
Letting Your Spirit enlighten my understanding
So I can vanquish allurements that cause my backsliding.
Thank You for choosing me toward praise-worship
Allowing me to delight in Your warm fellowship
Letting Your presence revive my prayer-relationship
So I can progress in Your entrusted stewardship.
Thank You for choosing me toward covenant-faithfulness
Allowing me to exercise diligence within Your pledged goodness
Letting Your promises uphold my vow-fulfillment’s steadfastness
So I can continue in doing Your assigned tasks with my joyful willingness.
Thank You for choosing me toward service-performance
Allowing me to sacrifice by Your gracious guidance
Letting Your power move my labour of patient endurance
So I can bear fruits by Your productiveness-assurance.
Thank You for choosing me toward kingdom-advancement
Allowing me to show Your ready pardon and merciful ways’ involvement
Letting Your kindness inspire my testimony’s commitment
So I can minister well while obeying Your commandment.
April 15, 2022
I was thinking about something
just the other day.
I was at a loss for the
"right words to say."
I was thinking about a time
"way back when."
That day I became born again.
A zeal for Jesus that
I once had.
Excitement in my life,
a heart so glad.
A passion for Christ
overwhelmed my soul.
I loved Jesus-for he had
made me whole.
I've forgotten things that
I once knew.
Reading God's word-
I no longer do.
What has happened to me?
I'm so ashamed!
I'm an embarrassment to
Jesus' holy name.
So, dear Jesus, my knees
I humbly bow.
Please change my life...
I need you now!
By your word, transform
me deep within.
I confess to you my backsliding sin.
I re-commit my life NOW-Yes I do!
And by your love, I'm made
BRAND NEW!
By Jim Pemberton
God blesses our anniversary that aims for Christ to be exalted
Thus, we must be spiritually prompted…
Surely divinely-led with prayers granted
While yielded to Him, being biblically directed.
God blesses* our anniversary that assures His victory!
Thus, we trust Him to save souls from hell’s fury…
Surely helping the needy unload sin-burdens they carry
While declaring with compassion the Gospel story.
God blesses our anniversary that tests our commitment!
Thus, we submit to Him with clear vision’s enlightenment...
Surely seeking His presence, overcoming discouragement
While abounding in His work with whole-hearted ministry involvement.
God blesses our anniversary that promises His gracious fullness!
Thus, we humble before Him with earnest meekness...
Surely abiding in His will of perfection’s greatness
While laboring in His life-building business.
God blesses our anniversary that’s rewarding!
Thus, we ask Him that our toiling and giving He will keep guiding…
Surely refraining us from complaining and backsliding
While upon His truth we are steadfastly standing.
God blesses our anniversary that requires sacrifices!
Thus, we follow His leading as the right process...
Surely learning from His Word for righteous experiences
While warned against worldliness and destructive losses.
God blesses our anniversary that brings satisfaction!
Thus, we serve Him with our pure heart and honest intention…
Surely motivated by Christ’s love, not by personal ambition
While pleasing Him with our faith midst joyous dedication.
*Numbers 6:24 “The LORD bless thee, and keep thee.
February 2, 2020
Travelers tempt the hand of fate, of time
moving from within one box to the other side.
Sometimes we’re scared, we cry sometime
yet, to take that step, that risk “Ah, let the heart abide.”
Moving from within one box to the other side
we get a new perspective, a learning most sublime.
Yet, to take that step, that risk “Ah, let the heart abide,”
different shapes, all askew, beneath a mask of pantomime.
We get a new perspective, a learning most sublime,
a hard fought for understanding, from which we can’t backslide.
Different shapes, all askew, beneath a mask of pantomime,
all are born, and grow and die, as to eternity we glide.
A hard fought for understanding, from which we can’t backslide,
a call for peace and unity within this woman’s lifetime.
All are born, and grow and die, as to eternity we glide,
as on we wander, one and all, hand in hand through time.
A call for peace and unity within this woman’s lifetime
sometimes we’re scared, we cry sometime,
as on we wander, one and all, hand in hand through time
travelers tempt the hand of fate, in searching different climes…
Topic:Backsliding
Down I go.
On the paths of sheol again.
The rewards of death; my hands regain.
The wheels of the plow of righteousness; i forgot to maintain.
Being led into the desert,
I stagger like one under the influence.
All the while blinded by momentary pleasures.
A walk through the arid land with cold lifeless walls as my compass.
*Surely I have lost it*
These words my mind kept a fix on.
Regurgitating it while the devil's counsel slowly seeped in.
A 'sound advice', like Job's wife, the devil gave.
Urging me to totally quit.
A sweet ballad he played into my ears.
Telling me to embrace hedonism as my new religion.
For I would surely fail in living a perfect life.
He gave me examples.
Yes.
*Your righteousness is as s filthy rag before God*
The accuser of the brethren quoted this scripture for me.
I countered.
Reminding him that self righteousness accounted as sin before God.
Telling him of the uptmost essence of the Jesus's death and grace in salvation.
"No one is perfect"
These words the devil said in retort.
Quoting a popular quip which gave leeway for people to sin.
In despair,
I tried to counter.
For my Christian walk was filled with inconsistent up and down moments.
Like a touchlight with a failing battery,
The light of Christ within me flickered.
HE then came back.
Like a sharp clack amidst deep silence,
I heard His words.
That piercing word of life that erupted joyful tears in me.
For I was a washed out version of my former self.
*My grace is sufficient for you.*
*You have an advocate before the father who pleads your case.*
These words Jesus spoke to me in reply to the devil's condemnation.
*Look unto Jesus the author and finisher of your faith...*
This charge He gave me to cleanse me of all adulteration.
*There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus*
This fact He quoted to free me from all allegations.
*Seek ye first the kingdom of God and its righteousness...*
These words He gave to guide my future aspirations.
Once more I cling to the cross.
An abandonment of my fling with death.
A willing stone in the sling of Christ Jesus.
Ready to earn new trophies to bring to His feet.
Laying them down as He calls me a king too, being a joint heir with Jesus.
#Bashorun
Once a pastor became bitter with God,
And had stumbled in his faith with the Lord
For ev’rything in the sky fell in him
And evry’thing seems so heavy for him.
“Seems God has forsaken me, ” he said
And thought that God is no longer with him
“Where are His promises? ” he asked himself
“Did the power of the Lord failed? ” he thought.
He said, ”Oh, God! Why is this happening
And why are these things falling down to me?
Do you really love me, Lord of Highest?
Do you really care about me, Oh God?
You’ve said in your word ‘I’ll never leave you...’
Yet you’ve forgotten and forsaken me!
You have said that you’ll never let me go
And yet I can no longer feel your love! ”
But the Lord answered him in a vision;
In a divine presence, Christ spoke to him:
“I’m fatally wounded here at the cross;
Yet I cannot die because I’m spotless.
So, dearly child, please give me all your sins
And I will replace it with righteousness.
Dearly child, please give me all your sorrows
And I will replace it with blessedness.
Most of all, give me all your bitterness
And, child, I will replace it with whole love! ”
So he went back to the love of the Lord
Turned back to the protection of his God.
Here is the wisdom of the Sovereign
Here’s the message most cannot understand:
What is our right to complain to the Lord
When Jesus Christ never complained at all?
So just “Trust to the LORD with all your heart
And lean not in your own understanding.”
For God says, 'Be still and know that I'm God; '
Be steadfast and remember that He's Great!
Whatever happens when days counted as weeks?
And years counted as astrological countdowns
What ever happened to disco rap battling drums?
On streets filled graffiti and sand castles
Whatever happens to shoes with no laces?
And bras with no straps
Backpack ladybugs with taps
Bell bottoms Montreal
Sweden Russia Columbia streets
Backward aimed down guns strictly meant for
Cisco band operative thieves
Whatever happens to justice stringing down a cubical wall?
Hanged down gavels London has fall
Lint brushed suits and gated Citadels
Bells ring time church broken pulpits spill
What ever happened to make up brushing Mack trucks?
Highway in France
Long stroking discipline Chinese to Japan
Whatever happened to words screaming off a page?
Sandy still beat breathing cells covered backward again
What happened to life metaphoric acronym?
Made fun of stage left to mend
Jokes to tell anchors to sail
What happened to the decrease in operating jail to sale?
What happened man made fictional crap
Backsliding genocide and presidents’ mysteriously vanish
What happened is told with a story that has no end?
Stopped up water turned brown cased in a sprite river bend
What happened what happened if the time was not set?
It will be broken and told to lie up a case with no Chef
No knife no swords
The word would not be told
What happen to happen?
Happen has caught a cold!
The Day I Gave My Heart to Jesus!
I was thinking about something
the other day.
I was almost at a loss for the
right words to say.
I was thinking about a time
"way back when."
That day I became born again.
There was a passion for Jesus,
that I once had.
Excitement in my life,
and a heart so glad.
A love for Christ
overwhelmed my soul.
I loved Jesus! He had
made me whole.
I've forgotten many things,
I once knew.
Reading God's word…
I no longer do.
What’s happened to me?
I'm so ashamed!
I'm an embarrassment to
Jesus' holy name.
So, dear Jesus, my knees
I humbly bow.
Please change my life...
I need you now!
By your word, transform
me deep within.
I confess to you my backsliding sin.
I recommit my life NOW! Yes I do!
And by your love, I'm made
BRAND NEW!
By Jim Pemberton 04/09/15
February 28 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Joshua 7-9
Key Verse – Joshua 7:13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you..
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY SANCTIFIER
Lord God, You are my Sanctifier against accursed trespass and unholiness
Thank You for forgiving my confessed conscience-smiting filthiness
As I repent from neglecting Your warning for unrighteousness…
Deliver me from corruption-destructiveness.
Lord God, You are my Sanctifier against backsliding
Thank You for correcting my wayward environ-treading
As I learn from Your Word, gaining biblical understanding…
Drive me toward prayer altar-building.
Lord God, You are my Sanctifier against sin-spoilage
Thank You for purging my self-inflicted trouble-bondage
As I come to You for freedom-flight, surpassing temptation-frontage…
Draw me away from covetousness-rampage.
Lord God, You are my Sanctifier against pursuit for vanity
Thank You for hindering my ascent to secularism-liberty
As I avoid craving for materialistic security…
Direct me to Your will of spirituality by Your reigning authority.
Lord God, You are my Sanctifier against pride’s destruction
Thank You for guarding my heart from arrogance-caused isolation
As I participate in the fulfillment of Your great commission…
Deter me along paths of haughtiness’ curse-abomination.
Lord God, You are my Sanctifier against false religion’s insight
Thank You for admonishing me to conquer pull of humanistic flight
As I journey upward stewardship-servanthood height…
Deal with me according to Your counsel delight.
Lord God, You are my Sanctifier against murmuring’s grievance
Thank You for reminding my oath of vow-perseverance
As I overcome tendency to succumb toward troubles’ disturbance…
Discipline me from engaging in carnal encumbrance.
February 28, 2023
I was driving on Confused Avenue, only to find a T section at the end of the Avenue, I had to turn left, turn right, or simply just turn around.
I sat in my car, to read the street signs. The street sign to the left was Hell Street, the sign to the right was Heaven Highway.
Quite naturally, I turned right onto Heaven Highway. I drove 10 miles only to find Heaven Highway was blocked, so I had no choice but to turn around.
Instead of turning back on Confused Avenue, I decided to drive down Hell Street because I was curious about what I would find. I drove 5 miles and didn’t like what I saw. I tried to turn around, but, I realized I was trapped, so I continue driving on Hell Street, oh and to my surprise.
As I drove, I past intersections titled Judgmental Court, Temptation Avenue, Backsliding Lane, Gossip Corner and Devil’s Plain. I said to myself, these are the same streets I’ve traveled on before, no need to stop, I need to drive on.
I continue driving on Hell Street looking for a way to turn around, lo and behold, I saw a bright light shining in the middle of the road.
I drove as close as I could to the bright light, I stopped the car and got out for a closer look. I walked into the light and was greeted by a man who was kind and wise.
I was so scared, but he assured me I would be fine. He said I saw you driving on Heaven Highway….child, you can’t get to heaven driving that way.
He said, In order to get to heaven you need to know about Judgmental Court, Temptation Avenue, Backsliding Lane, Gossip Corner and Devil’s Plain.
I told the man I once lived on some of those streets, so I wanted to see where Heaven Highway would take me. It was blocked, so I couldn’t drive through.
He said Heaven Highway was blocked for a reason. You forgot to repent and ask the Father, through His Son Jesus, for forgiveness.
I closed my eyes, feel to my knees and I started to pray, when I finished praying, I opened my eyes, the man, and, the bright light had disappeared.
I got back in my car and turned it around, that’s when I realized I had been driving on Heaven Highway the entire time.
The Highway to Heaven is not a straight forward drive, there are so many detours along the way, that force many to turn their life around.
To all known shades, O virtuous Hinds,
With peerless hunger of a sordid kind:
Cover your ears. Cover
Your spirit.
Do not
Put the watered pot beneath the sun, that neutral sun
That struggles not to save you, but shall come undone,
Unraveling some haunting memory
You cannot help but don
Like your favorite sweater unsewn, not forgotten,
For it was you who was rotten.
Do Not Enter.
Like me, you chuckled. Yes, who are they
To force us away? Who are they, indeed.
I shall make a deal with you, friend:
In my hand is the answer why you mustn't descend.
Valhalla…Valhalla…I stood without weapon.
And then…no.
Our hands have not yet converged for shake,
So why do you recoil?
Is it truly, truly, and marv'lously apparent
that the Spleen lives in my soil?
The sea gallons
Through a funnel.
The funnel
in the Tunnel of Love
in the Tunnel of William
in the Tunnel of dark matter;
A face stuck in the mirror shall shatter.
Emerald City. Do Not Enter.
Do
You Understand?
For as the hands of an evil flower give a soundless scream
I reach for the shaving cream—
Nick my neck. I wish to own that neck.
Stand right here without a trace, come through my eyes,
and now, Dear Wise: Do You
Dance? Where art thou lance? And my stance:
I fear that I cannot perform advanced
A flying trapeze peripheral hand-stand.
Curiously down on a fresh wick,
Curiouser and Curiouser
Is the world's smile—but who shall be there
To see only the smile
And not the body
Smiling?
The Ice after the Fire
Syncopating?
I shall wonder and ache, pale and queasy...
I shall hear Reap wed to Infinity oblique for us
The sabers slake to sell my musk
The sun glides into the room
My room
Lacking light,
Backsliding sunlight from a desire-glot,
Though Desire has served me well.
About as well
As a tumble down three old flights of stairs,
whence I've chuckled into a box of airs,
asking, O, Where?
April 6 Scripture Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 30-32
Key Verse – 2Chronicles 30:18 … But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one...
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR PARDONING ME
Thank You for pardoning me for my iniquities
As well as for my earthly vanities
By Your holiness purging my sin-impurities
Along Your righteous verities.
Thank You for pardoning me for my selfishness
As well as for my pride-inflicted guiltiness
By Your mercies forgiving my confessed haughtiness
Along Your loving kindness.
Thank You for pardoning me for my arrogance
As well as for my worthless extravagance
By Your grace causing my deliverance
Along Your secured assurance.
Thank You for pardoning me for my transgressions
As well as for my idolatrous abominations
By Your sanctification cleansing my corruption
Along Your transforming conversion.
Thank You for pardoning me for my jealousy
As well as for my enviousness-fervency
By Your clemency working in my leniency
Along Your gentle persistency.
Thank You for pardoning me for my backsliding
As well as for my destructive world-minding
By Your truth correcting my humanism-attending
Along Your purposive life-building.
April 6, 2022
August 20 Scripture Meditations Based on Hosea 11-14
Key Verse – Hosea 11:1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR LOVING ME
Thank You for loving me, calling me Your child
Fully adopting me though sin-defiled
While transforming my heart from being earthly-wild…
Now, I’m bound toward heaven, divinely-styled.
Thank You for loving me, drawing me by Your compassion
Fully caring for me though stained with transgression
While purifying my mind through Your sanctification…
Now, I’m cleansed toward perfection, enjoying Your redemption.
Thank You for loving me, ruling over me with Your faithfulness
Fully guiding me though disobedient along stubbornness
While drawing my soul near Your altar of prayerfulness…
Now, I’m surrendered toward righteousness, submissive unto holiness.
Thank You for loving me, helping me thru Your leading
Fully controlling me though rebellious due to backsliding
While disciplining my will against worldliness-standing…
Now, I’m humbled toward genuine worship, grateful for Your life-building.
Thank You for loving me, assuring me by Your security
Fully upholding me though doubting due to uncertainty
While teaching my spirit upon Your wisdom’s integrity…
Now, I’m enlightened toward ministry where I can invest for eternity.
Thank You for loving me, enabling me thru Your empowerment
Fully training me though ignorant and filled with humanistic sentiment
While subduing my arrogance of haughty predicament…
Now, I’m revived toward fruitfulness marked by faith-advancement.
Thank You for loving me, showering me Your blessings
Fully providing for me though unfaithful midst grace-pressings
While rebuking my selfishness that can bring cursings…
Now, I’m grateful toward joyful living, overcoming lossings.
August 20, 2022
August 8 Scripture Meditations Based on Ezekiel 4-11
Key Verse – Ezekiel 11:1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD'S house…
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR LIFTING ME UP
Thank You for lifting me up against sin-downfall
By Your forgiveness of pardon’s call
That cleanses my soul from wickedness, whether big or small
So I can stand uprightly tall upon Your mercy’s hall.
Thank You for lifting me up against error-backsliding
By Your holiness of graciousness’ upholding
That pulls my heart from defilement’s degrading
So I can forbear godly scolding.
Thank You for lifting me up against guilt-pressure
By Your righteousness of kindness’ measure
That drives my faith from fears’ enclosure
So I can pursue toward heavenly treasure.
Thank You for lifting me up against distress-discouragement
By Your truth of inspiration’s enduement
That propels my spirit from worldliness’ enticement
So I can seek Your revival fulfillment.
Thank You for lifting me up against slothfulness-sluggardness
By Your love of power’s effectiveness
That pulls my body from laziness
So I can labour with diligent earnestness.
Thank You for lifting me up against vanity-torture
By Your sufficiency of satisfaction’s gesture
That settles my emptiness from nothingness’ posture
So I can pray upon trust-filled venture.
Thank You for lifting me up against anxiety-disposition
By Your joy of goodness’ provision
That ends my discontentment-bouts midst dissatisfaction
So I can continue in Your constant compassion.
August 8, 2022