Daily Dose of God’s Glorious Love

A Child’s tale Taste and see the goodness of God Instead we taste mixed blessings of sod A serpent’s tale told hidden truth And the gates of hell are unloosed Our tastes contaminated by our tears As our only hope becomes our fears Hiding from each other and God Waiting in fear our return to the sod Pain and despair become our lot Our only legacy our burial plot Age and aging take their toll As grasping ages forward roll First made God’s Word do twist First born to God raise a fist Murder moves from heart to hand And blood stains the weeping land An endless cry of eternal despair What to me my brother’s care? Divorced from others breeding strife Divorced of meaning from all life The line of murders has begun As darkness exists under the sun Despair cries from broken heart Wounded by death’s horrid dart Brother’s kill brother’s to begin But borders cannot contain our sin Different, alike it doesn’t matter Mu

PAIN I know pain my old friend For pain is my old friend We have lived life endlessly Lived life so painfully There is no day without pain My own eternal strain Not always the same place Not always seen on my face Some days worse than others Under pains darkest covers Sleep evade and rest it flees Steals away my times of ease Rest cannot hold it at bay For pain has come to stay Does this pain belong to me? Why, O Lord, cannot I flee? Is this my own fleshly thorn? To be this lifetime borne? Is God the author of this pain? Is it because of my own stain? Questions many answers few When will this pain be through? Is God too small or pain too large? Does pain my strength enlarge? Will answers decrease my pain? Will they decrease my stain? Is it forgiveness that I need? Or His laws should I heed? Or is pain a part of life? Lived in such varied strife? If not our own than others Jailed in pain like

Let it go Pilgrim let it roll away Harder to make it stay Always wants to return Causes our heart to burn Cut the ties that hold it in Cut the ties holding our sin Oh God, let it roll away Please let it leave today No guarantee it won’t return Even though I sin do spurn Please God help me today Please God, let it roll away

White as Snow Snow covers the hardened ground Kissing the ear with a gentle sound Each flake an amazing gift of God Covering a stained earthly sod Landscape changes in our view All looks cleansed and all looks new Mud, grass, trees all lost to sight Covered by this blanket of white Coldness chills our hearts blood Chilled through by this white flood Icicles descending from every tree An army of daggers surrounding me Flakes of snow dancing in the sky Their finale on the ground they lie Compounded by their growing number Drifting and lifting in their slumber My heart is like the cold hard ground Sin and darkness in it abound God sent His Son’s cleaning flood And covers me in Jesus’ blood The white covers my hard heart Cracking and breaking it apart The whiteness covers my heart’s sod A gift of love from my God

Denomination We seek our Hope in denominations. We find our fellowship in denominations. We find our identity in denominations. We are divided by our denominations.  But we are the body of Christ. We each play a part in Christ. But we are united in Christ. We are one in God through Christ.  To be in a denomination is not Christ. To be in a c ongregation is not Christ. To be in a study is not Christ. To be in fellowship is not Christ. Worldwide unity is only in the Church. Eternal unity is only in the Church. Sharing Christ with all is the Church. Offering hope and love is the Church 2/4/2020