The Prophet Jeremiah here truly speaks
being God's voice among the nations
spreading the truth of God for all to hear
as He does for many an occasion
God has planted here a choice vine
His own people, Israel, of a pure seed
they had the privilege of being His
and the choicest seed indeed to feed
But God's people have turned to folly
they have become degenerate no less
having grown into a wild vine
leaving nothing but soiled todress
No matter the quality of soap
or how hard they rub it to clean
their stain of guilt will all remain
for their sin will be there to be seen
God has declared this by His prophet
speaking by God's authority, He said
only by shedding perfect blood
can God forgive sin by His sovereign head
These words speak to this day
the stain of your guilt is still before me
only by being washed in Jesus' blood
for He died sacrificially on Calvary's tree
Jesus said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive".
Notwithstanding, a life of giving one's self sacrificially is pricy.
Indeed, a 'self-giving life' is rewarding but also costly.
The air in that sphere of life is like mountain air.
The higher one goes the thinner the air becomes.
People in such a high zone are rare breeds.
But thinner air does not mean a bitter life.
A giving life is by far the sweetest life.
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The apostle Paul makes this appeal
to all who were Christians at this time
they were to present themselves sacrificially
living holy lives pleasing to the divine
This was to be their spiritual worship
just as God had ordered them to be
for God looks for purity in His worship
only in His mercy can we be set free
God's message is at this time
is to this world be not conformed
have no idols but only God alone
make your mind to be transformed
Learn well in discerning God's will
so be instructed to know by His test
then what's good, acceptable, and perfect
making this a continuous quest
In summary, bring yourself to God
be truly a living sacrifice for your Lord
this is God's requirement for His own
so be living for God lifting your sword
(" I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.")
Romand 12: 1-2 (ESV)
Thanks to Father DeMino fir reminding me the world cannot bite off all our Jesus-kinda-Love. So here goes-
"If you love sacrificially, you won't expect thanks and only lose a blip of Eternity." Deo
Joe DeMino did add, "ouch for that blip" that got gobbled up mercilessly
Haunted by grievous guilt vexing my mind
I yearned for pardon divinely sublime
with sweet assurance of quietude chime
to end torture angst … in God could I find.
Reaching forth to me, Christ offered His love
Of eternal redemption His blood paid
Sacrificially His body He laid
To ransom me, leaving great throne above.
Trusting Him, my Redeemer so precious
My soul received peace with eternal bliss
Acquitting me from hell’s wrathful abyss
With His mercy, bountifully gracious.
Enclosed around my Saviour’s fellowship
Serene freedom* of joy grips me indeed
Grateful, never minding time to exceed
I would exalt Him in earnest worship.
Within my Lord’s security delight
I’m well-cared midst His contentment fullness
To share blessings with servant-heart’s goodness
Glowing while guided by Gospel truth light.
*John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
August 7, 2020
7th place, "Be Inspired" Premier Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Regina McIntosh; judged on 8/15/2020.
Do all people we deem “friend” truly care
about us? Probably not. Do we
care deeply about each of them?
Perhaps we don’t! How dare I
say that? Do all of us
sacrificially
consistently
actively
show we
care?
Those
who, in
a lifetime,
experience
a FEW deep, caring
relationships with friends
and family are SO blessed!
“I care” should be proven with deeds.
True friendship goes beyond Facebook chats.
Lord, help me practice what I’ve preached today!
Date: February 11, 2020
Contest: Does Anyone Care?
Sponsor: Emile Pinet
Jovially, you approach life, with jokes to share.
Optimistically, you view obstacles as opportunities.
Sacrificially, you ensure safety for loved ones' care.
Honorably, you'd rather do what's right than appease.
Understandingly, you unfold patient behavior.
Admirably, you exhibit traits of a savior.
For my dear husband.
His name means "Yahweh is Saviour" or "to save."
He has saved my life.
1-23-2020
We Can’t Out Give God
Written: by Miracle Man
12-30-2019
Generosity is an attitude of gladly giving,
Which manifests itself in our daily living.
Whatever we have, regardless of our wealth,
We’ve always directed toward HIM in stealth.
We’ve been bighearted with our time and goods,
Reaching out to those in our neighborhoods.
Not practiced only due to some sudden whim,
For we’re only God’s steward’s, all belongs to him.
A Christian, by faith, should be sacrificially giving,
We should live each day as if it were Thanksgiving.
For God discerns when we don’t mind sharing,
He sees the evidence when for others we’re caring.
It’s when we share with others that God is pleased,
We shouldn’t be giving so our conscience is eased.
It’s only through giving that we’ve been able to learn,
That we couldn’t out give God, or beat HIS return.
My God, thank You for showing
how long suffering* You are toward me
though I appear arrogant and unyielding…
Please constantly teach my heart
of humility’s virtue righteously rewarding
as genuinely exemplified by Christ, the Saviour
Who yielded Himself sacrificially, with love so exceeding.
Thus, I seek Your meekness-grace drive;
help me bear --- for Your sake,
every act I perceive as condescending!
My Lord, Your long suffering for me
highlights Your merciful compassion at work
notwithstanding my service that’s unacceptable…
Kindly correct my soul against prayerlessness
and faith’s increase-failure due to vanity-stumble
for me to progress in Your holy kingdom’s pursuit
making my stewardship fruitfully favorable.
Hence, I need Your power’s fortitude;
enable me --- to live for Your glory
as Your Spirit does enable!
*Exodus 34:6 …The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.
August 11, 2019
For me,
but not for my kids,
it was The Old Rugged Cross
teaching my ego/eco-logic crossed
to believe adults could deprive their Earthly minds
of sacred co-passionate investment
and yet thrive uniformly healthy bodies
of equitable wealthy,
yet sacrificially lonely,
dignity.
Not until I uncovered
The Blessings of the Earth and Sky (K. Patton, J.S. Bach)
did I think to wonder win/win why
Earth and sky, crossed and yet recovered
more resilient Earthly bodies together, than apart,
with skyward polyphonic minds soaring
not uniform aspiring
prey avoiding predators
yet unity inspiring Earth's communal co-relationships.
How ever did we get this strange left-brain nightmare,
wealthy bodies
can be severed,
crossed out
away from mental passion for health,
co-responsive
interdependent webs
of Earth and Sky
secular and sacred,
liberating science and liberal multi-enculturing arts,
integrity's double-crossed communion
of Earth's original healthing wealthy purpose.
Behold the flageolet wizard wand —
at each windpipe end,
it toe tag taps the same dirge sound
Abominable Gomorrah black buries
to the left
Vile Yeti blinking Babel blue buries
to the right
This voodoo mint stick
shows you the same Al Jolson face,
no matter which dark side
of the hex coin you flip
Deep indigo Far West hue
is gonna bullet mark your forehead
with a transactional tattoo
Shallow turquoise shade rear East tint
will sunset your hope
with burning crosses double helix bent
Wooden voodoo baton
carved with pagan imagery
On each side of the prod stick,
cattle cull call
is tased with ballot trickery
Some pridefully pip
they be canary pawns of the right wing
Others proudly chirp
they be pigeon fawns of the left honking
And the independent night owl souls
sniff how the trade wind blows,
to decide on which way they gonna lean
Pogo patsies on a voodoo stick
bouncing to-and-fro billow mindlessly
Drowning their fears
in patriotic waves of I-pod conformity
They do the death dance,
head bobbing self-sacrificially so
Voodoo chicken tenders
turning on the fiery pit spit slow
Jesus came and walked upon the earth
here He claimed to be God's son
what was this that was happening?
God in human flesh truly this was done
This God-man walked about doing good
healed the sick, showed a power unknown
performing miracles all around being God
this truly was mighty deeds being sown
It really astounds one to think upon
God our creator among His creation
walking on water, feeding five thousand
there was no end for great His station
God had a greater plan upon the earth
being the son He came here to die
paying sacrificially for all our sins everyone
then rising from death to return on high
What a fact the son of God incarnate
this is simply amazing for to ponder
that Jesus is God the eternal one
our creator made all in the great blue yonder
(This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.')
John 5:18 (ESV)
Existence in Exile
Dispensing realities of parallel dimensions thrown into alternate extensions
Panoptical parasitical pretensions lie the overlords of illegitimate intentions
Chaos encroaches an anomaly serving the omnipresent obsolescent odyssey
Travelers of space-time unconsciously rediscovering the past sacred geometry
Hemispheres of dormant deceptions live deceivers of maleficent conceptions
In the cosmic corridors of corrections and refueling in the abyss of reflections
Within infinite bubbles of the multiverse navigating neglectfully we traverse
A catatonic continuum we immerse as we ride the eternal elliptical in reverse
For now we welcome the wormhole entering worlds of the carcinogenic cabal
Into oleaginous oblivions we crawl with ideological illusions we habitually haul
Within a consciousness condemned and realities severely sacrificially stemmed
Amidst a hellion hyperspace suspend will we arise altruistic aligned and amend?
May.19.2018
In 100 Years
Sponsored by: Brian Davey
Of mountainous harmonic highs everlasting sacred skies, meadows evergreens
Our Love swiftly soars beyond the seraphical shores, of everlasting dreams
A ripple in the parental pond a wizard waving wand, love bewitchingly beams
Like birds in their native nests Love rarely rests, feeding on sensual streams
Love may take a waiting while you surrender to its smile, you give and receive
Once you've been bit you sacrificially shall submit, to the thriving thieve
It steals your humble heart as you comply and compart, to conquer and deceive
Like a rose in disguise chasing beauty and chastise, in the end we always grieve
But Love carries on like a softly swimming swan, thru ripples to the end of time
Come what may Love will always Satyr stray and rivetingly romantically rhyme.
July.04.2017
The Creative Collective Anthology Series
Sponsored by: Geraldine Taylor
Happy 4th to my US buds and buddets lol
Within the subtle soundless silence
There exist echoes of a lingering loud
My pendulous heart decrees in defiance
Such emotions plundered and ploughed
Like a geocentric giant guillotine
My lamenting love sacrificially sliced
My soul slaved in the Enigma machine
Where dreams are deceptively diced
The loving light battles the darkest day
And sorrows surrender at portals gate
For love barely escapes the submissive sway
Marauding memories reminisce and recreate
Stained surreal abiding accumulative art
A priceless painting of my Pendulous Heart.
May.20.2017
Pendulum of Time and Place - Contest
Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
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