Showing posts with label Caring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caring. Show all posts

Monday, May 3, 2021

THE INWARD LOOK: Spiritual Stock-Taking






What Are You Saying!?! 
Are You Aware Of What It Is That You Are Saying!?! 
Do You Understand That Your Mouth Speaks That 
Which Has Found A Home In Your Heart!?! 

Beloved, 

Be Careful! 

We Should All Be In The Season Of Stock-Taking 
And 
We Seriously Need To Personally Take Stock 
Take Knowledge Of What Things Are In 
The Various Departments Of The Storeroom That 
Is 
Our Heart! 

Where Is Love!?! 
Love For Christ!?! 
Love For Others!?! 

Have You Discarded Hate For Your Fellowman!?! 
Are You Indulging Hatred For Sin!?! 

Are You Cultivating Kindness, Caring
And 
Willing Service!?! 

Have You Discarded Spite, Malice, Greed
And 
Envy!?! 

Is Your Supply Of Saving Truth Daily Growing!?! 

Have You Discarded Lying, Innuendo, Half-Truth 
And 
Raging Deceit!?! 

Have You Ordered An Abundance Of Hope!?! 

Are You Actively Working Faith For Today!?! 

Are You Cultivating Prayer, Gratitude, Thankfulness 
And 
Willing Obedience!?! 

The Inward Look ... 

Please Take A Good Look At Your Heart! 
Open Every Department And Compartment 
And
Get Out The Gospel Hose 
And By Grace
Set The Pressure To New Heart 
And
Do The Necessary 
No Matter How Much It Hurts: 
Jesus Christ Heals Hurts! 

Remember, Remember 
Don't Ever Forget ... 

Wrong Words
Just Like Spent Arrows 
And 
Lost Opportunities
Cannot Be Recalled 
But
You Can Start A New Thought 
And
Have A Godly Conversation 
The Likes Of Which Will Please Our Dear Lord! 

Kind Words Aid Sleep! 

Choose The Peace Of God!





Saturday, September 3, 2016

Dare To Care!





If We Love God
We Should Be Loving Our Brethren!

If We Love Our Brethren
How Can We Not Love Almighty God
Who Made Us
AND
Gave The Breath Of Life
To Us
Our Brethren
AND
All Others?

We Claim To Walk With God
AND YET
We Haughtily Walk Past
Walk Around
Our Poor Downtrodden
Hungry
Naked Brethren!
This View Cannot Be True!
This Must Be A Mistake
ELSE
Our Claim To Love God
Renders Us
Pharisaical Fakes!

Putting Coals Of Fire
On The "Enemy's" Head
Will Sear His Conscience
If He Is Not Already Dead!
Heaping Coals Of Fire
On Our Own Heads
Over Hearts Grown Cold
Does Not Do Anything For Us
When We Choose To Be
Gold-Plated Hypocrites
Bold!

BUT ...

In The Last Day
All
Will Give A Running Account
Of The Life Spent
AND
The Treasures In One's Personal Account
AND

"But..!"

"Because ...!"

"If ...!"

AND
"I Probably ...!"

Are Not Going To Stop
The Wrath Of God
From Raining Down
On Our Heads
If We're Among
The Unrepentant
AND
The Ungodly
Who Live For
The Pleasure
The Party
AND
Lord Mesmer's Songs!

We Are Blessed
For The Good That We Do
AND
We Are Held Responsible
For The Good
We Could Have Done
AND
Consciously Choose
Not To Do!

If God Gives You
A Box Full Of Biscuits!
Praise God For The Blessed Outpouring
AND
Set A Few Bits Out Of Your Bounty
On The Water
Wherever The Shore You Are Beholding!
Bless A Brother!
Bless A Sister!
AND
Indeed
Bless Yourself!
For
What Good Is A Blessing
Locked In A Box
On The Long-term
Cold Storage 
Save-It-For-Later Shelf?!

Give ... And It Will Come
Back ... To YOU!

Dare To Share!
Dare To Help Another
His Burden To Bear!
Dare To Care
AND
Save A Life
In This Mortal Strife!

God Is Faithful!

He Keeps His Own Accounting
Of Balances Due To Us All

AND

Unlike Earth's Dishonest Pay Masters
God's Promises Are Written In Blood
Not Chalk Powder
Solemnly Masquerading
As Curative Plaster!

**********

God Keeps His Promises!

Trust God

AND

Do Good!





Saturday, January 30, 2016

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: The Culture Called "Let Us Care!" + PRAYER: Lord, Help Us To Stand!





Everywhere
All That We Hear
Is:

"Let Us Develop
A Culture of Care!"

There Is Care For The Animals!
There Is Care For The Plants and Trees
AND
There Is Care For The Rivers
The Lakes and The Seas!

This Is All Good
Caring For One's Home
Caring For The Elderly
The Lost and Alone
Yet
We are Forgetful
Of The Most Important
Which Will Make All Caring Just Right!
It Is Developing
The Culture of Praying
To The Living God of All Might
To The God Who Banishes Fear
Who Comforts Us
AND
Who For His People Fight!
Who Provides The Vision
So That We May Behold His Heavenly Light!
Who Sustains All Living
By His Sovereign Will
Through His Eternal Wisdom 
AND
Omniscient Eyesight!

Let Us - TODAY
Make A Covenant
A Covenant of Peace
With The God of Creation
Who Holds Our Life and Land Lease
That We Will Our Will Give Over To Him
So That His Holy Spirit
Will Us Fill
To The Point Where
Without Pause
Uncertainty
Neglect
We Will Repair
To The Father
AND
To Him Constant Bow
In Prayer
Never Ceasing
To Give Him All Praise
AND
Worship
AND
Honor
To The End of Our Days
Knowing
Ever Knowing
He Will Bless
AND
Keep Us
In All Our Ways
For All of Our Days!

PRAYER:

Oh, Father
Our Father
Today We Bow in Prayer
Blessed and Believing
That You
Moment By Moment
Have Us In Your Holy Care!

We Love You!
We Honor You!
We Look For Your Blessing This Day
Knowing That In You
We Have No Need To Fear
Nor Lack of Food
Lack of Water 
For Your Living Word Says
"God Will Provide!"
Clothing and Shelter 
For
The Daily Needs of Those Who 
In You 
Lovingly Abide!

You Say, Lord
That You Let Your Rain
Fall
On The Just
AND
The Unjust
So, Father, Please Shield Us
From This World's Ungodly Lusts!

Create, Lord
Your New Creations
Of Us Who Have Given Over To You
The Old Man
And Taken - With Vigor -
The Holy Jesus' New Man!

We Reach Out
With Fear and Trembling 
AND
We Accept Our Readily Available Salvation!

Lord, Help Us 
To Stand Against 
The Wiles of The Devil
AND
Lead Us
To Our Home
The Home
 Blood-Bought
For Us
By The Son
Your Beloved Son -
The Son of Man!

Father, We Love and Reverence You!
AMEN.