L-ive with supreme sacrifice,
O-ffer to God your full fervor;
R-egardless of the season,
N-ever hold back your
A-rdor.
S-upreme sacrifice in life
A-ims to show your submission;
M-eekness and obedience
S-eem parallel to your devotion.
O-n the twenty-sixth of January, you work from sundown to sunrise;
N-ight is made daytime, proving your supreme sacrifice.
The Day
(of what importance can one day be?)
Written: by Miracle man
1-13-2020
On August 27th nineteen sixty eight
I beheld my face in a ripple less pool;
what I saw triggered change and a new life start.
At the cross, my sin was bartered,
For God’s forgiveness.
While salvation for my transgressions
came to me without cost;
The sin covering price was borne by Jesus
who was wounded, despised and rejected of men.
HE willingly became the supreme sacrifice for mankind
When HE declared “it is finished”,
and gave up the ghost.
SACRIFICE
The thin line is diffuse between these two,
Imposed duty and concerned sacrifice.
If a mother tells her children it is for you
That I had quit my well-paid jobs twice
They would wonder what she actually did
Would think without being somewhat candid
She performed mother’s role paying a price.
A soldier dies fighting a battle for our sake
Losing his life he makes the supreme sacrifice.
They say on duty his job he can’t forsake
For his family erasing the thin line won’t suffice
His life is more precious to them than just a cause.
Assigned task of a soldier can’t deride lost life because
Nobody can evaluate or pay the price of sacrifice.
March 30. 2018.
Lost Heroes
Written: by Miracle Man
4-24-2017
Many forced to mature before their time,
Each, someone’s daughter, or someone’s son;
Having their lives exacted during wartime,
Circumstances had dictated they be the one.
Many came home a casualty, feeling defeated,
Others died for a cause that couldn’t be aborted.
Spat upon by some and most were mistreated,
Countless found themselves being unsupported.
But seen through my eyes they’re heroes all,
For they voluntarily paid the ultimate price;
Our sovereignty’s fight became their downfall,
For ideals they became the supreme sacrifice.
Remembrance
White crosses stand in Flanders field by rows
Where poppies grow in vivid colours red.
The colour where spilt blood from body flows,
Poppies remind of those fallen and dead.
To wear a poppy on remembrance day,
A symbol showing that we are aware
In war supreme sacrifice man will pay.
So we in freedom are able to share.
Remembrance day is one of reflection,
On the price paid gaining peace to be won.
Families torn apart, a vast selection.
This war held promise of no more to come.
The lust for power has caused years of pain
Wars haven't ceased, man's still at it again.
Copyright © Vivien Wade 2015
Thorn piercing blood from stem
to make rose ever red
blossoms it to attract
every eye and win all heart in process
The pain and suffering of thorn
never goes in vain
despite fables spread across
to undermine the supreme sacrifice
Red rose truly acknowledges
by carrying toughness inside
and fragrance outside
to reach one and all.
This day to celebrate the supreme sacrifice
of the ancient prophet Abraham
This day to ponder and reminisce
that divine substitution of Ismail for a ram!
This Quranic and biblical factual story
shall never diminish in its age-old glory
That superb reliance on and compliance with the will of God
eternally for man to learn from and applaud.
Upon his awesome trust in the unseen, let his kind marvel
and of submission, devotion to God bestow him a laurel
And now for the sake of mutual unity and festivity
first let all of humanity
release their doves of peace
and let them fly freely, unprovoked, unrestrained
with olive branches in their beaks
such that when angels who predicted
forever feuding humans
look down they see instead
6 billion or more two fingers up
in a huge mass of humanity
signalling for and meaning to keep the peace!
But mind you, world peace is to be everybody's goal
so let no one leave space for any loop-hole.
EID GREETINGS everybody.
MEMORIAL DAY
©Dr. James E. Martin
We pause to remember again this day,
Those many who fell so far away.
They bravely served and paid the price
That we refer to as the supreme sacrifice.
That we may live in this land so free,
And enjoy the liberties that we daily see,
Is a blessing that is ours at great cost
And that which should never to carelessness be tossed.
Yes, many have served under the flag of this land
And to the end continued to stand.
Unable they were to death escape,
This flag their coffin did so beautifully drape.
(Copyrighted 2008)
What will you say when you stand before God?
Can you justify the path you’ve trod?
Will you be comfortable to speak?
Or will you feel that there’s much you should tweak?
You may say that you’ll simply refrain,
From standing in His presence you’ll merely abstain.
Do you really think that you’ll have that choice?
Have you confidence in your own voice?
An interesting thought in all of this
Is that this appointment you will not miss.
You may think that you can hide
But the books on you will be open wide.
The solution to this problem is really not hard
You need not be completely off guard.
Those things in life about which you fret
Are things that can be settled yet.
They must, however, be addressed here
They are things that can simply disappear.
Confess them to He who has paid the price
At Calvary with His supreme sacrifice.
THE BIBLE
THE BIBLE IS
LIKE A SWORD
IT’S WORDS COME INTO OUR LIVES
DIVIDING THE TRUTH FROM THE LIES
IT IS LIKE A LIGHT
SHINING, BRIGHT
ILLUMINATING THE WAY
SO THAT WE MIGHT
CHOOSE THE SURE PATH
AND NOT STUMBLE
OVER ROUGH PLACES
THE BIBLE IS
A TRUE COMPASS
ALWAYS KEEPING US ON COURSE
DIRECTING US TOWARD
OUR FINAL DESTINATION
THE BIBLE IS
A LOVE STORY
CALLING US BACK
TO THE ONE
FROM WHICH WE CAME
LOVE DEMONSTRATED
IN SUPREME SACRIFICE
COVENANT RELATIONSHIP DESIRED
THE KING OF GLORY
IS CALLING HIS BRIDE
TO WALK BY HIS SIDE
MJA
Just God.
Excellence in all things.
Sovereign being of the universe.
Undying love for all mankind.
Supreme sacrifice for man.
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Jesus!
Sometimes when the trials of life,
become too hard to bare ;
I think back to calvary,
and my savior hanging there.
I think of how He must have felt,
while nailed upon the cross ;
Knowing He was innocent ,
but willing to pay the cost .
For sinful man to be redeemed ,
and live in paradise ;
His sins must be forgiven ,
by a SUPREME sacrifice .
Jesus freely gave His life ,
He made our sins His own ;
And on the cross - forgave us ,
Now He sits on heavens throne.
Now the burdens that I carry ,
don't seem so bad to me ;
For I know that I can leave them
at the foot of calvary .
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