I Get The Impression

I get the impression

That some people think

That God is a fool

To trot out on occasion

And set down on the center stool

To be used to amuse

Like He's just some cheap tool!

I get the impression

That some people think

That God is a stool

To sit on upon occasion

While we play the fool

Acting all cool

Like we were back in school!

I get the impression

That some people think

That God is a tool

To dig out on the occasion

Of some emergency dire

To be sharpened and e’en inflated

When we face the mire and the fire!

I may be wrong

But impressions do count

For I, too, am guilty

Of neglecting and least counting

The role of the Master

As we tread life’s vale!

He’s here for all seasons

Not just for the soul’s travail!

So, please, join now with me

Let the Master take charge

Let Him be the leader and

In your life loom large!

The fool is what Satan thinks Him!

The tool - it was His cross!

The stool is where we sit by Him

As He tells of the great cost

That He paid to redeem us

To save us - His children - from eternal loss!

Please don’t minimize Him

You can’t Him maximize

He is God - the Creator

In Him our lives we realize!

So bless Him!

Exalt Him!

To His Great Name - give praise!

Sing glory, hallelujah

For soon He will us raise!

John 1:1-5, 10-14 (KJV)

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

² The same was in the beginning with God.

³ All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

⁴ In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

⁵ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

¹¹ He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

¹² But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

¹³ Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

¹⁴ And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Prayer: For Protection

BUT JESUS IS MY

SO THAT I CAN SAY:

Oh, Lord, there are so many questions

That I need to answer

As I venture out each day to

Face those in the high and byways,
Whether friend or foe,
Adversary or associate,
Benefit or burden,
Leech or love.

I ask You for Your covering.

I ask You, Lord, to lead me and
Help me to do what You want me to do
In whichever circumstance I find myself.
Help me to remember that there is no place that
You can bring me to, that You cannot carry me through.

I ask You, Lord, to guide my footsteps and

Let me not pick up the fleas of sin that

Attach themselves to the warm body

That lacks the Living Power that

Heals, seals, and protects from the wiles of Satan.
Lord, where there is a lack within
Please instill, and fill me.

Give me Your strength, Lord, and 

Help me, through Your Grace,
To stand up aright, and stand ... victorious!

AMEN.