Playing With Praying

I Went To "The Magician!"
I Needed A Little Something
To Get Me Through The Day!
I Prayed The Exact Fee
AND
Achieved The Exact Play
AND
Confidently
Pridefully
Walked Away!

It Wasn't Very Satisfying
BUT
I Could Look Right!
I Could Speak Like I Was Walking Right
AND
I Could Pretend That I Was Living In The Light!

...   sigh ...

Go Along
Got Along
Doing Wrong
For A Song.

Not Very Helpful ...

Put In
Get Back!
Put God First
And
Life For You Won't Be A Hearse!

Huh!?!

Get What
You Give!
No Water
In A Sieve!

Hmmm ...

God Is Love
Is God!
Suffering?
Look Away From The Fraud!

Okay, Already!
Out With It!

Stop Looking In!

Stop Looking About!

Cast Your Gaze On Things Above

For There Is Where You Find The King Of Love!

Stop Praying For Temporal Things!

Start Praying For The Things Of God!

Let God Lead

You On The Way

And

Throw The Gotta-Have-Things-Medicine Away!

Say Your Prayers From Your Heart!

Trust God To Provide For You

From His Heart!

God Cannot Lie!

If You Believe

Love

AND

Trust Him

You Will Fly

Home To Heaven

When He Receives To Himself

His Own

By And By!

Put The Living God First

Not Things To Be Purchased

With The Contents Of Your Purse!

God Will Provide!

He Has Blessings For You

IF

For Peace With Him

You Sue For

AND

Pursue!

God Is Real!

Sin Assails!

Jesus Took The Nails - Trust Him

Then Satan

Against You

Can't Prevail!

Real Life Begins

When You Let Jesus Christ In!

Satan Can't You Grope

When Hope In God

Is Your Anchoring Rope!

The Forever Word Of The Lord!

I Walked in  Pretty Meadow
Peaceful
Green
Serene ...

(Tap! Tap!)

Huh?!

You said: "... Serene!"

Well,  I Though it was Serene
Until a Cool Breeze Blew
And I Heard A Voice or
More Probably, Two, say:

"The Word Of The Lord!"

"Man Is As Grass!"

Come On!

Serious!

Okay, So You "Heard" a Couple Voices!
So, Who Were They?

That's Just It!! I Don't Know!
Anyway, I Continued Walking, Thinking My Mind Was Playing Tricks On Me When I Heard:

"Lasts Forever! "

I Paused ...

And Then I Heard:

" Withers and Dies! "

Okay ...

I Stopped to Listen But I Could See No One Soul About!
Then I Heard It Again ...  PLAINLY!!

Okay ...

I Refused To Go Any Further,  And That Is When I Heard It Plainly:

"The Word of The Lord 

Lasts Forever!"

And,  Then ...

"Man Is As Grass 

Which Withers and Dies!"

So, Who Said Those Words?

That's Just It!  I Still Don't Know!!
Anyway, I Finally Roused Moved, And I Returned Home.

That Evening, I Kept Hearing Those Words Being Constantly Repeated In My Mind.

Those Words Struck A Cord, and I Had To Search Them Out, And I Found Them In Isaiah Chapter 40!

I Read That Chapter, and I Thought On The Significance Of Those Words:

Man Is Minute!
God IS Mighty!
Man Will Pass Away
But God Has No Need Of A Nightie!

Grass Is Green!
Healthy It Seems
Until The Sun Blasts
And Bakes It Dry As Dried Beans!

Man Is As That Grass and
Cannot Do For Himself!
Deny Him The Water Of The Spirit, and
He Becomes Dry and Dead

BUT ...

If The Grass Has The Dew Of Refreshing
AND 
The Water Of The Word
For Cleansing And Washing
The Dirt Of The Sin Life Is Carried Away
AND 
The Hot Sun Of Chastisement Won't Cause The Lush Grass 
To Dry Off and Disappear!

The Word Of The Lord
Which Lasts Forever
Is Food For The Man
Who Alone Can Stand Never!

Man Must Set Aside Self!
All Alone He Ultimately Returns To Dust
BUT
Having Ingested and Expressed The Eternal Word
He Can Call Satan's Bluff
AND 
At The End
Be Made New
AND 
Not Be Made Into Added Fuel
In The Fire With The Devil and His Crew!

Trust

The Word 

of 

The Living God

and

The Living God

IS

Trustworthy

To Deliver Both Me and YOU!