God looks for real humble people
ones who have deep, reverential hearts
willing to always be obedient
so God would bless them in no small part
The commandments of God are holy and true
keeping them is for our benefit and good
so all our generations would be blessed
all their days when rightly understood
God's discipline is to teach His truth
so you obey all His sayings as you walk
in God's ways, fearfully in reverence
forever learning to walk in godly talk
The requirements of God are fourfold
to love and serve Him in holy fear
walking close by the Lord every day
with a full heart and soul all your years
God is a God rightly to be praised
bowing before Him in reverential fear
bringing our love imperfect as it is
to the lover of our soul who is ever near
As grasses, trembly-tender
Blown, and holy, through
Topped with flowers, at its base
Do we mark their fall.
Stand, you men, as sensitive
Here, 'mongst us, upbent
With that instilled spirit's means
Makes reverential?
Twilight in the cathedral,
Silence fills its auditorium.
I linger in this atmosphere,
Seeking answers to my many questions.
Twilight in the cathedral,
A moment for reflection,
Discovering a path through the night,
Understanding the one who dwells within.
Silence in its auditorium,
Those seeking solitude gather in the cathedral,
Responding to the depths of existence,
Exploring the mysteries that shape the daylight.
I sit in reverential silence,
I bow my head,
Troubled and burdened,
I unwind.
I emerge from my darkness,
Journeying into perpetual light.
July 5, 2026.
The Apostle Paul speaks here earnestly
of the importance to be cleansed
from every defilement of sin
clearing the dirt through our spiritual lens
This cleansing comes in God's power
through his divine merciful grace
praying in and through His Holy Spirit
telling of His love in constant praise
Holiness is so important to God
as scripture tells He's triple holy
proclaiming His pure godly character
to be clothed in holiness solely
Let us live in the fear of God
making us complete in Christ's name
having a right reverential fear
pointing heavenwards our constant aim
Underline with priority these words
cleanse, defilement, holiness and fear
bring them to mind regular and often
hear God's spirit in your inner ear
('let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body[a] and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.')
2 Corinthians 7: 1 (ESV)
He cups the weight of her small breasts,
cradles them with reverential hands,
weighs the balance of gravity,
the pressure of pleasure.
He wonders about this passion
for the petite and elfin,
for the Hellenic perfection of rose and plum,
then recalls his mother,
the push of her tenderness
as she held his face in both her palms
as if he were the substance of her soul.
Now he holds this beautiful woman
bewildered by an artless wonder,
speechless, yet his mouth full
of a heaviness, a sufficiency now released
as the fecundity of rainclouds.
Wisdom, victory, justice, and law
worship you in reverential awe.
Aesthetics, commerce, and tactics thrive.
In you, compassion and peace revive.
Weaver of love and benevolence!
Mistress of music and medicine!
Peak of perfect poetry divine!
Serene with the owl of refinement
with snakes, you uncover appeasement.
Uprooter of roots of ignorance!
Though embellished with athletic might
like Juno and Jupiter, you're bright.
Your imperious armor and spear
erase from the cosmos evil's sphere.
Beacon of quick human cognizance!
The thirst for effervescence,
A sweetness I’ve always craved,
To be a child of such incandescence,
So that no soul can claim I’ve failed.
Yearning to be witty, even reverential,
Merely to be something good,
Desperate to claw up some potential,
So that no soul can claim I am pointless.
Lusting to be known as an ingenue,
Perfection in a woman’s form,
An image id walk through flame to,
How can I be true when I am based on pure perception?
August 12 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Jeremiah 4-6
Key Verse – Jeremiah 4:2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR HIS TRUTH
HE WANTS US TO LIVE IN
Praise be to God for His truth
He wants us to live in as we:
Seek Him by His goodness
Submit to Him with His grace
Stand for Him with our gratitude
Surrender to Him by His gentleness
Sacrifice unto Him along His generosity
Jeremiah 5:24 Praise be to the Lord for instilling in us
reverential fear in Him Who:
Chastens us for our transgressions
Comforts us with His tenderness
Cleansing us during our trials
Cares for us in our testings
Corrects us with His truth
Jeremiah 6:16 Praise be to the Saviour
for enabling us to stand in His ways to:
Walk by His guidance
Watch for His goodness
Work around His guarding
Worship amidst His gladness
Waver not against His governing. Amen!
August 12, 2024
July 18 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Proverbs 19-21
Key Verse – Proverbs 19:23 The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR TEACHING US
TO HAVE REVERENTIAL FEAR
Praise be to God for teaching us
to have reverential fear toward Him that:
Affirms our security of salvation
Arrests our sinfulness amidst shame
Assures our sanctification toward stewardship
Apprehends our selfishness for steadfast service
Awakens our stubbornness by Scriptural standards
Proverbs 20:24 Praise be to the Lord for
leading us toward righteous goings:
Directed by His truth
Delighted with thanksgiving
Driven to trust Him midst trials
Destined for His triumphant testimonies
Determined to toil for Him with tested training
Proverbs 21:31 Praise be to the Saviour for
His safety through His:
Counsel so prudent
Charge that’s powerful
Compassion around His peace
Commandment with His purpose
Cheer and care along His providence. Amen!
July 18, 2024
We found a way to mesh bordering on perfectly sequential
A widening variation of discovery; in a world I thought inconsequential
This investment is based solely on our long-term potential
In culmination of what matters to me; seen within your vast deferential
Maybe there really is something more than amicably existential?
Affection for you is essential,
Leaving nothing inferential,
Focused the quintessential,
Affection rain-like torrential,
Compounding is exponential,
Prized past preferential,
Affection so reverential
I am
As they say
Thee
Incumbent
Reverential
". One "
Who simply is unable to
As yet be able to
" Win "
A one single argument
With or over myself
In my own individual particular
" " HEAD " "
And that I am freely willing to admit
As it doesn't sit well
With either neither of us
magnetised spine
medulla pierced
rising yet higher
grazing caressing
bindu and crown
as a small orifice
in our tenth gate
allows us to bilocate
seamless energy band
paying homage to guru
descends to third eye
where it spreads wings
enveloping the skull
that a thousand suns
light up all at once
in reverential celebration
soma nectar drips
triangulating nadis
as of divine will
sun rays and moonbeam
navigate to tip of nose
down to lips and chin
jugular notch and heart
via navel back to root
transmutation of form
felt vividly in the physical
(where else ~ we are here)
borne by bliss magnetism
orbiting the central vein
illumined by the kundalini
splits us in two vertically
toroidal form of Ardhnarishwar
I have found the fullness of brokenness in one person,
He is Jesus, the Christ, born to dwell with human beings;
For no sin of his, like a lamb, I found his cause worsen,
Scourged; thorn-crowned; spit upon; underwent such menial things...!
Didn't, as though a wonder, kings visit him, at his birth?
Why so soon, yet, the scenes changed, and dominions sought his end?
If truth, except for parrots, is not allowed on this Earth,
Incarnation is nothing but a note by Yahweh sent...!
Neither Romans nor the Jews could ever his name erase,
Unabandoned truth stood firm; this was, hence, he rose again;
The body was broken and blood was shed; in him was grace,
This was why, beyond all norms, the victory he could gain...!
Thank you, Jesus, for teaching me to be truly broken,
My flesh and blood is yours as my reverential token...!!!
Owing a debt
you can never repay
Beatitudes leveraged
salvation in play
Moments beholden
to all that’s to come
Providence calling
in voices unsung
Eternally liable
the invoice sublime
Whose terms reverential
the bursar Divine
The wings of an angel
the wings of a dove
In debt to forgiveness
—absolved from above
(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)
God delights in what pleases Him
so to mark out what's His good pleasure
it's not a horse's strength nor in man's leg
but God's not impressed with a human measure
What makes God's pleasure so divine
is seeing His image He has created
showing true godly reverential fear
which word of God has clearly stated
God is the Lord who is steadfast
this shows in His love so ever full
knowing you can have a certain hope
in which produces a real true jewel
Now it is right and indeed proper
to bring praise to God on high
for He deserves our Thanksgiving
since loving us in eternal heaven
Indeed the Lord has great pleasure
in His own who fill with fear
bow in humility at God's throne
knowing this great God is always near
("His delight is not in the strength of the horse,
nor his pleasure in the legs of a man,
but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him,
in those who hope in his steadfast love.
Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem!
Praise your God, O Zion!")
Psalm 147: 10-12 (ESV)
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