Dull Ache
A Dull Ache
Somewhere
In the middle
Growing larger
No longer little
A need
more insistent
Almost a sharp
Pain
Then becomes
a Joy
This, the means
You employ
To draw me
Closer
Your Spirit
Entices
I come to
a Sun,
Beautiful Light,
Perfection
Holding only
Life
Your Purity
Your Goodness
You breathe
Eternity
Return to me
I will return
To you
As my
Desire
Intensifies
I wonder
When it will
Be met
This ache
This longing
We all
Within feel
This unmet
Need
We constantly
Try to fill
With shallow
Thrills,
Cheap pleasures
Life can feel
Like walking
Uphill
With a heavy
load
Your beauty, God
the only real
goad
To continue
Earth
As it is now
Will never be
Utopia,
[perfection’s
power]
Only with
Christ’s return
Will that
For which we
Yearn
Be Met!
Revelation 7:9-10 After this I looked, and there before me
was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation,
tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before
the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm
branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice:
“Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”
Revelation 7:17 For the Lamb at the center of the throne
will be their shepherd; ‘he will lead them to springs of
living water’, and ‘God will wipe away every tear from
their eyes’.
Still Walking
The world
Is dead
But up &
Still walking
Around
Working,
Playing
They sound
Alive
But. . .
Without Christ
God, their Father
Anyone like
That
Is dead
Already
In their heads,
Hearts,
Denying their
God
They just don’t know it.
So many living
Without Christ
So spiritually, totally
Dead
So Sad
But, with that said,
should we not warn
Them?
To keep them
from:
The outer darkness,
Weeping, wailing
Gnashing of teeth
Worms that never
Die
Fire that is never
Quenched
More than just
Once
These things
Are described
Prophets,
Christ Himself,
Not to be denied
Said out of love
For Us
It is our
Responsibility
To Warn
Not with a tongue
So glib
But with Loving Hearts
& Words
As Christ
Himself Did
Out of
His Great Love
For Us
He warned
As you would
Warn any child
Its hand to keep,
Avoid,
Not to seek
That deadly fire
& its
Unspeakable Pain.
Matt. 13:49 -50 This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the blazing furnace where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mark 9:47-49 And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell where,
the worms that eat them do not die
and the fire is not quenched
Everyone will be salted with fire.
Isaiah 66:24 And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”
Answer
Most stand calling
Not realizing they do
What is it they Desire?
They need You,
Lord, God
The passion, fire
Of your heart
For them!
That is the answer
We all need.
In blindness &
Stumbling, fumbling Is this not what
We all seek?
Seeking joy, peace,
Fulfillment,
Love
We wander, fight
Shove
For our share
Of this earth
When all true lifeFlows freely from above.
INSIDE GOD’S HEART
We were made to live
From the very start
This is the purpose,
ANSWER
For which we were
Created
In only this,
Are all needs sated
To live daily
In contentment
More Fulfilled
Try as much as you
Can
To live inside
His Will
His Intellect,
His purposes
Your old man
That self
Must be killed
To let Him have
His way
Over you
His swaySo you may say,
Not I but Christ
That liveth in me.
But because we turn
Away
Harden our hearts,
Without our true calling
We endlessly wander
Thru all of life
Unsatisfied, discontent
stumbling
& falling
A few weeks ago, I saw a movie, Risen, starring Joseph Fiennes as a Roman Tribune who helped to crucify Christ and then miraculously got to see Him after He has risen from the dead. I thought the movie was really good and stuck to the text of the Bible fairly accurately. I loved the scene where the Tribune gets to see the man he helped to kill sitting alive in a room among His disciples and followers. In that scene, Fiennes did a good job of portraying the shock and amazement of seeing the resurrected Lord. Also the scene where Christ heals a leper is good.
If you get a chance to watch this movie, I think you will enjoy it. I cannot begin to imagine what it must have been like to see a dead man raised to life and walking and talking among us and then get to watch Him ascend back into heaven to return to His Heavenly Father. Praise God!
Exposure
So I will lay myself
Bare
I do not care
If they stare
If a glimpse into
My soul
Will bring them
Into your fold
then God, Let it be
If looking into
My heart
Will get them to
Start
Seeing you better
If it be ever so clever
Of
You to begin
then may You win
them on their journey
closer to your Son
bright, blazing glory
of your face
joy unbounded
found only
in the grounding
of each soul
in your great power
and self!
Startle Me
Startle me,
Wake me,
On a shelf
I’ve been
Too long
Now seems
The perfect time
For a newer song
So . . .
Wake me
Shake me
Do it again
King Jesus
As you did it then
On those dusty streets
Of old Jerusalem
Flow thru us
Live through us
Your power shining,
Exploding
As to your world
Your beauty
You’re showing
So, come
Lord Jesus
Come
Legions of angels
Behind you
To tromp,
Stomp
On this
Shallow dirt,
This clay
Quake the earth
As you did before
Awaken your church
Let it arise
At your bidding
As this dark war
Assuredly you will
Be winning
Let us not be afraid
To get our hands dirty
Comfort, convenience
Never wins the day
So do it,
Again
King Jesus
Do it Again
Awaken once
more our spirits
to call us your
Steadfast Soldiers
& Friends!
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