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February 3 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Leviticus 8-10
Key Verse – Leviticus 8:4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
FAITH IN GOD WHO COMMANDS US
TO KEEP HIS ORDINANCES
God commands us to keep His ordinances by His zeal…
We come near His presence by faith along His redemption seal
While confessing our sins He does reveal
Thus, we abide in His design of divine deal.
God commands us to keep His ordinances by His holiness…
We follow His statutes by faith along paths of righteousness
While bringing our offerings out of His graciousness
Thus, we sacrifice with glad willingness.
God commands us to keep His ordinances by His cleansing…
We need His purification by faith for our spiritual rinsing
While forsaking our iniquities’ cursing
Thus, we stand upon His blood-washed sanctification-blessing.
God commands us to keep His ordinances by His direction…
We seek His face by faith to purge us from any abomination
While repenting from our disobedience against His instruction
Thus, we cling to Him to flee from temptation.
God commands us to keep His ordinances by His commitment…
We exalt His name by faith in our ministerial engagement
While continuing in our Gospel-sharing and church involvement
Thus, we rely on Him in participating in His kingdom advancement.
God commands us to keep His ordinances by His supply-gain…
We ask for His favour by faith to press upward service-terrain
While bearing our burdens with stewardship-strain
Thus, we depend on Him as our strength He does sustain.
God commands us to keep His ordinances by His authority…
We claim His promise by faith toward fulfillment-authority
While rejoicing in our secured salvation-certainty
Thus, we thank Him, praising always His compassion’s prosperity.
February 3, 2025
Jesus and his disciples entered Gethsemane.
The Mount of Olives in the night’s darkness they would be.
Near him were Peter, and the two sons of Zebedee
He would feel troubled, sorrowful, and filled with ennui.
Jesus asked John and James, “Will you stay awake with me?
Please stay up and keep watch. I know you are quite sleepy.”
He moved a short distance from where the others would stay
Jesus would kneel down to the ground, and started to pray:
“For it shall be Your will, and forever from today.
Father, if it’s possible, please take this cup away.”
Jesus looked up into the heavens and then would say:
“Father, time has come. I know there is little to do.
Give your son praise to let all know the God that is true.
To grant eternal life to all those who may know You.
I have completed the work. It is totally through.
In revealing Your name to all those whom You gave me,
they now believe and accept You. They can plainly see
I came from the true God. I was sent with certainty.
I do not pray for the world, but for those who know me.
Soon I’ll be coming to You. It’s near my last hour.
Father, I ask you to protect them with Your power.
I protected them when I was with them, as You willed
None have been lost so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
While I am still in the world, I am saying these things.
May they have the joy and pleasure knowledge of You brings.
I’ve given them Your word, and the world has hated them.
Please keep them, and protect them from evil’s stratagem.
They are all not of this world, any more than I am.
In all the truth and goodness within You, they’ll confide.
By Your word that is the truth, may they be sanctified.
I pray not only for them, but for those who follow
In order to keep them all as one, as You they’ll know.
Let them have the glory that You allowed them to see.
Knowledge of You I shall spread in perpetuity.
May all the world be brought into complete unity.
Let them be one as I in them, and as You in me.
Violet’s blue spruce, which we bought this year
the same time we cut down our Christmas tree
has been planted in the yard and is doing beautifully.
The planting came with its share of celebration and festivity…
as all ten members of our family who were here
had a hand in transplanting Violet’s tree.
All ten people took a turn on the shovel…
which was our ultimate goal…
and answers that pressing question:
How many family members does it take just to dig one hole!
With every family member participating…
I can say with certainty…
we planted more than just a blue spruce
we planted a family tree.
We have given Violet and her tree the best start…
as all families try to do
and we pledge to do our best to raise that tree…
and little violet too.
To provide them both with sunlight, air and water..
nurture them through the summer heat and winter snow…
to give them both the care they need…
and enough space in which to grow.
We are happy to have planted in both of them
roots that will extend and solidify…
which will give them the strength and determination they need
to reach up to the sky
Sometimes when the sun
Hovering on the horizon in the eventide
On a cold, windy winter day
Is bidding goodbye at the close of day
I watch it almost wistfully
Wishing it would linger much longer
Oh, the beautifully bright glow
And the glory of it, I truly treasure
What could be more magnificent?
A molecule of melancholy hangs high
In the frigid air as I watch the setting sun
Slowly and steadily sink into the sea
I watch it drowning, and I wish it would
Grow arms and safely swim out to shore, to me
Is it so wrong to wish it stays through a cold night
To bless me with a wealth of warmth?
I know with crystal-clear certainty, it will
Generously grace me with its presence
At tomorrow's sunrise
I morosely miss it, still
Submitted for...
Alliteration - Old or New Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Joseph May
Date originally written: 11/09/2018
Date submitted: 08/31/2022
Wow, what a gift* so well-presented
Making me absolutely elated
Opening with glee I’m now prompted
With excitement, cheerfully spirited!
Such gift is truly blessing-laden
Lifting away my heavy burden
For its message says I’m fully forgiven
That assures me peace, and abode in heaven!
Thanks for the gift with eternal guaranty
No one can pay its priceless certainty
Since it costs the life of a deity
Who sacrificed Himself for humanity.
I cherish that gift of life’s fullness
Packed with the Giver’s love and faithfulness
May He find me showing my thankfulness
Along my joy to share it with willingness!
*James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Dear God,
Thanks for Your gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ, the Saviour and Lord. Today, I accept Your gift of grace, as I put my faith in Your Son, Jesus Christ, Who died on the cross, was buried and rose again to pay for the penalty of my sins. Please forgive my sins, while I repent, believing that only You can assure me of heaven. I thank and praise You so much.
April 13, 2018
1st Place, "Contest No. 465..." Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 7/15/2018.
Featured among PS Poems of the week, December 4-10, 2022.
If I were immortal,
What would life look like to me?
Would I be at peace with
Knowing my soul would never part from my flesh?
When I've done all there is
To do in this world,
When I have
Nothing more to give,
Would the earth be my suffocating cage
And I a bird forever trapped inside it?
How terrifying would life be, if at all?
Would I wear my immortality
Like a badge of honor? Would I feel powerful?
Would I ever tire of it
Physically, mentally,
And psychologically?
Do I eventually long to escape life
So desperately
That I bargain with God
To turn me into a mortal being?
Given the absolute certainty
That all living things
Ineluctably die;
Loss of loved ones and close friends,
Departing to the afterlife
While I'm trapped
On earth in perpetuity.
How unbearable
The unceasing loneliness?
Only God knows.
If I were immortal
And he scoffs at my ardent pleas
To become mortal,
I'd permanently become, I guess,
A local caped superhero?
If I Were Immortal Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Date written: 04/23/2022
If it were ever possible to be seen or heard,
it would amaze me
to find myself inside you
my shape carved
by the harsh reality
of what you made of me.
I am a thing—
a jigsaw of
your silent prayers,
crumbs of curses,
you never spoke.
I refract through every lens,
I might appear to fight your demons,
then sit and praise them quietly,
or I might orchestrate their evilness,
just to watch your breathing fade.
I could be the waiter six feet under,
serving dinner to worms,
on a cold night.
I could be the hand behind the barrel,
aimed at your beloved face.
I might be the one beside you,
in your daily ride to work,
or the friend,
who loosens the weight in your chest.
I could be a stranger
surviving on the sidewalk.
I can be the air you breathe,
and still
you would never meet my eyes.
I could be you—
or a part of you
that sparks every doubt
and silences every certainty.
Through my words,
we could face each other,
for minutes,
like a passing coffee,
or for years,
aging quietly
inside your thoughts.
Or for an eternity
walking beside me
unraveling—
undoing your existence.
half seen in the shadows
a film of images
monlit velvet. blue deep
a pale stone in the dark
a glitter of water:
the days end
voices far afield
light of sunrise
the stillness
a rainbow awakens
more pleasure
down to sunset:
after the brocade of night
& the ornate
shield
a sable ribbon in a chronicled
painting of Spring
in fiesta
yelow turquoise vermillion
rising
crossing
then gathered
clinging staggered
a continuing thread
together again
in marked sculpture
fragments moderated
around
an arbour of stone
beauty just beginning
a process
taking form
a mongraph dwelling
as it were
in the air
moving towards certainty
an obscure need
flowering
as a neccessity elsewhere
out of the night langour
out of the darkness no form
nothingness no movement:
time drifts
between pleasure & peace
splendour&habit
dwelling in a natural manner
always
precious
memory
full of detail a catalogue
a kindled
measure of sensitive
conversations
a compromise of the constant
a disposal of reason
a deposit of the repetitive
a voyage to the distant past
still
liquid customs written&
understood
matter still
in place
through it all
the priviledged remain here
spinning
empty pledges
in a procession
offering their measured
magnificence
to implement particulars:
meeting together
without real participation
October 14 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Acts 4-5
Key Verse – Acts 4:2 Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY RESURRECTED SAVIOUR
Lord God, You are my resurrected Saviour,
ever-assuring my grand eternal future
Thank You for letting me believe Your powerful rising-up posture
While filling my spirituality with Your Holy Ghost’s gesture
So I can declare Your Gospel truth midst worldly skeptic culture.
Lord God, You are my resurrected Saviour,
ever-restoring the joy of my salvation
Thank You for enabling me perceive beyond ignorance Your marvelous action
While healing my sin-wounded soul with Your miraculous compassion
So I can cleave to Your grace in fulfilling Your granted mission.
Lord God, You are my resurrected Saviour,
ever-upholding my commitment
Thank You for lifting me up to stay in Your redemption-settlement
While counselling my heart with Your comforting engagement
So I can possess Your peace of satisfying contentment.
Lord God, You are my resurrected Saviour,
ever-keeping my safety
Thank You for letting me remain in Your sovereign security
While instilling in my mind Your Word’s certainty
So I can yield to Your protective authority.
Lord God, You are my resurrected Saviour,
ever-subduing my fearfulness
Thank You for letting me magnify Your name’s gloriousness
While answering my prayers with Your favorable graciousness
So I can share joyously Your lovingkindness.
Lord God, You are my resurrected Saviour,
ever-commending my diligent performance
Thank You for letting me grow in Your service-guidance
While inspiring my devotion with Your cheerful stance
So I can obey Your commands against mocking ignorance.
Lord God, You are my resurrected Saviour,
ever-surmounting my pride
Thank You for letting me avoid boasting, setting arrogance aside
While restraining my carnality against haughtiness-tide
So I can abide in Your will, and in Your fortress, victoriously hide.
October 15, 2023
November 9 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on John 13-15
Key Verse – John 13:13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR LEADING US
SINCE HE IS OUR MASTER AND LORD
Praise be to God for leading us since
He is our Master and Lord; indeed our:
Life-Builder
Love-Bestower
Lesson-Bloomer
Learning-Beautifier
Lifter, bracing us up by the Bible
John 14:6 Praise be to the Lord for
He is the way toward:
Salvation-certainty by His grace
Success so clearly grand and good
Service through His calling that is great
Satisfaction with His compassionate generosity
Scriptural spirituality along His sovereign guidance
John 15:1 Praise be to the Saviour
for being the true vine:
Redeeming us for our regeneration
Restoring us being His ransomed
Re-creating us toward renewal
Reviving us by His rejoicing
Replenishing us in His rest. Amen!
November 9, 2024