Temple
Let me be your temple,
Lord,
Let me be your temple
Your dwelling place
Come fill the space
Inside my heart
That Mercy Seat,
Between cherubim wings
Meant just for you
Come let me live
Anew
In your presence
Bring your shekinah glory
Back
Your very Essence
So I no longer feel
That lack,
That emptiness
Of the soul
Let your Spirit
Indwell
So again I may
Tell
Of your Glory,
Your Power,
Majesty &
Unending Love
Control me
Take me over
So it is no longer
I that liveth
But you that liveth
In me
Praise you God
For your Mercy!
Union
There is only one
Owner of this world
Accident or chance
Alone did not hurl
Our planet home into
BeingThere is a someone
Who decided it to create
Not a natural process
Of chemicals
Life’s requirements
Will ever satiateA perfect balance
Was what a universe needs
To form, to cause to be
And there is only
One Perfect Being alone
with that abilityPerfect power
Perfect sovereignty
Perfect in wisdom
Perfect in His Love
For us
Everything you see
Or touch
Belongs to Him
And Him alone
To live in conjunction
With Him was
His forever goalFor all of His creation
On His mind was never
Destruction
We were made to exist
With Him hand in hand
In perfect peace, harmonyThis is His ultimate plan
United forever, God & man,
Giving of His perfection
The Two become One
Leader
All around varieties of life
Are abundant
Diversities of even people
& not to be redundant
Diversities of ideas
Differences can be okay
But without orderliness
Structure of some kind
We put ourselves at risk
For chaos
Government, a leadership
Is needed
Organization always has
And will require
A leader
This earth is no different
Life has always been set up
To run this way
& to this very day
Good leadership is still craved
But we have always from the
Beginning
Had an excellent, the best,
Perfect even,
A One, so winning
Glorious & Shining
A living, breathing God
Creator
Around whom all
Diversities of life revolve
There could be no better
Than this One
In harmony together
With Spirit & Son
But we rebelled
As the ancients tell
So now you have a choice
To follow the light,
HIS VOICE
Or alone &
On our own
We can continue to follow
The mad disorder
Chaos & confusion
Its dark rebellion,
As without HIM
We get swallowed up
& blindly lead
To our own destruction
Only 1/3 or 1/2
(one-third or one-half?)
When in cooking
Is not used a whole ingredient
End products most likely
Become only incomplete
Never of your original intent
It will look or taste bad
Or fall apart
You will have failed
Before you even start
God’s intention was
For us to give our whole self
Our Whole Heart
So to us His full, total, complete
Beauty, Glory He could impart!
To experience joy unlike
Any other
In love we would all be
Able to live
As sisters & brothers
But if you hold back
Do not give your full self
That slice, piece to God you refuse
You are only giving satan a foothold
That fragment he will be
most certainly to use!
And you will miss
The incredible, unending gift
God wants to give
Does not want you to live
Empty, guessing
So, unless you give one-hundred percent
You cannot receive the full blessing
You will lose the completeness
That which you were meant to possess
Of His Eternal, Forever Gift
Of that, any part do you want to lose?
Like A Sore Thumb
Let me say to begin
Never were we meant
To fit in
Our most gracious leader
Was despised
Then & now by a world that denies
His existence!
In pain He tried to lead
And with loving words
Our souls will feed
But on us Heaven will make
Some demands
If you love me, you will obey
My commands
He tells us
Christ’s church, family,
Is meant to be
And is to be seen
As different from the world so lost
We are to follow His example
For our lives no matter what it costs
So we are to walk, talk,
Eat, sleep, even smell
Different from a world
Which only can tell
Of satan’s acidic corruption
That insidious, deceitful destruction
Of the human soul
Christ came to release us
From all that demonic control!
So, live in it, but be not of it
We are to stick out as a sore thumb
So a generation thru you may come
To know the living Christ
To be the light, the salt
To receive His true call!
Shake off satan’s chains of darkness
Struggle, forge ahead, do your best
Reach for Christ
And thru His total bodily sacrifice
On a bloody Roman cross
Count all worldly gain a loss
And receive His Paradise!!
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Upside Down or Right Side Up?
A world in chaos
Lacking a clear direction
Things, ideas, get tossed aside
Each day, let go
Doesn’t this show
A world in confusion
Upside down?
Where Up is Down
& Down is Up
Restless words
Tossed about on
Distressed waves
Of anxious noise
Peace on some days
Seems almost unheard
But someone stands
Knocking
On everyone’s heart
Longing to be allowed to impart
His Peace-filled Spirit
Bring about a new day
Create within us a new way
To live
Trying Himself to give
To His world a new direction
Turn it Right Side Up
Where Up is truly Up
& Down is truly Down
So do not be afraid
To go against the grain
Of a lost, bewildered world
And for yourself & others gain
A better sense of how to live
Where confusion does not reign
Under this, His One Holy Name,
Christ Jesus!
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