HUMBLE POETRY FOR THE BASIC CHRISTIAN Read online

  CONTENTS

  FREE WILL

  I MAY BE DOWN

  WHO I AM

  WHO WE ARE

  SON OF INNOCENSE

  GOD'S PROMISE

  SATISFYING GIFT

  ECLIPSED MAGNIFICENSE

  IN CHRIST ALONE

  YOKED WITH CHRIST

  CLOUDED SERENITY

  ENSNERED HEART

  MANY VOICES ONE VOICE

  THE LORD'S FACE UNTURNED

  WICKED DEFEATED

  LIVE BY THE SPIRIT

  FREEDOM IN CHRIST

  GODS MERCY

  WITHIN GOD'S WALLS

  RIGHTIOUS BOASTING

  THE CALL

  EMPTY VESSEL

  HEAVENS REACH

  SIN AT BAY

  WORLD'S TEST

  OVERBOARD LOVE

  FRUITFUL WORDS

  ANSWER TO CALL

  NOT AFRAID

  TRUE MENTOR

  STAND IN FREEDOM

  GOD'S CHURCH

  YOUR DAY

  TRANSPARENT LIVING

  CRUCIFIED

  STANDING GROUND

  TASK COMPLETED

  UNCONTESTED

  HINDSIGHT

  PROMISE FORTOLD

  Free Will

  Free will is the ability to think for ourselves

  The ability to act on our own,

  To do right or to do wrong,

  To freely choose the consequences of our actions

  What a wonderful burden upon our hearts,

  To know we are responsible for ourselves

  That we are accountable for the choices we make,

  Choices that affect us and those around us

  To which one-day we will look back with either pride

  Or, one day with regret

  Free will, a split second decision

  A lifetime consequence

  An eternal result

  I May Be Down

  A battle lost and I am down, but

  I may be down, but I'm not beaten

  I may be down, but I'm not broken

  I may be down, but it's not over

  I may be down, but that's because

  I'm waiting for my time to rise again

  Who I Am

  A servant is who I am

  A follower is who I am

  A man whose life is not his own is who I am

  Someone broken is who I am

  Meek minded is who I am

  A man set free is who I am

  All because of who? I AM

  Who We Are

  Can we really say we know?

  Who we are? Why we are?

  If values change

  So we change

  Therefore we are never who we are

  There is but only One that can not change

  He knows us, birth into death

  Our every move known before us

  One who is beyond birth and death, eternal

  So us in our fragile state

  In death, in the final breath

  Can truly say, Who We Are

  Son of Innocence

  You came into this world

  A baby, innocent and pure

  You lived by your Father's word

  And through it we were made secure

  But, that security only later we found

  When on the cross You were bound

  And thus as You entered the world

  So did Thy leave it, innocent and pure

  God's Promise

  The promises that You have made

  Are to me like the ocean

  So vast, filled with many pleasures

  And never empty

  Satisfying Gift

  Christmas time and all are cheerful

  Gifts to be given, gifts to receive

  Every year gifts are given that never satisfy

  Yet have we forgotten the gift given to all?

  What gift? It was sent for the world to receive

  Born on the day which Christmas represents

  Born to testify to the sinful

  Born to carry the burden of those sins

  How can such a gift now be forgotten, neglected?

  Those who have received it, please fulfill

  To that which was intended

  For the gift to be shared and remembered

  More than just on Christmas Day

  Eclipsed Magnificence

  My eyes are downcast for Your Glory

  I can not witness

  For my sin has eclipsed its magnificence

  But, by the blood of Your Son

  Which washed all sin away

  Now can I gaze upon

  That which is to be

  In Christ Alone

  In Christ alone, by His hand

  At His gates I now stand

  The cost to enter

  By His blood was paid

  On Calvary at its centre

  And, not even death, in the tomb where He was laid

  Could withhold His Glory

  Yoked with Christ

  My life alone I once stood

  But, now with You I am yoked

  Many trials have I with You withstood

  Since the day my heart cried out

  For your deliverance

  Which, thus in me much joy invoked

  Clouded Serenity

  Through Your eyes I wish to gaze

  Your Glory which is upon this earth

  For through my eyes is seen a haze

  I no longer have a sense of mirth

  For in all its obscurity

  Has sin Clouded that which I once saw as serene

  Ensnared Heart

  You mean so much to me

  More than sermons, more than happy songs,

  More than societies' praise which beyond these walls surround

  Inseparable by Your love which I share

  The words You spoke with me in my heart I ensnare

  And a reflection of You, I intend the world in me to see

  In hope to end all the wrongs

  Which around me abounds

  Many Voices One Voice

  Many voices around me try distract

  From thy Son's final cry

  "Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit"

  For His sacrifice I will not retract

  The statement He made on the cross

  For this promise I inherit!

  Thus this from my heart you shall not pry

  Many voices try to distract, but only to One do I commit

  The Lord's Face Unturned

  The ways of the wicked are perverse

  From such deeds I wish to reverse

  For it is wise

  To all deviousness despise

  So the face of the Lord

  Shall from thee not be turned

  Wicked Defeated

  The wicked try to scheme

  So that they may reign supreme

  But, in their foolish folly

  Do they forget the day of Calvary

  Where You already won the Victory

  And crushed the evils plot

  Live by the Spirit

  Live by the Spirit

  So thy sinful nature may be disinherited

  And thus not be contrary

  To the day of Calvary

  May the fruits in you abound

  In the life by the Spirit you now have found

  Freedom in Christ

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  And thus not end, as did Sodom

  Who through sin was destroyed

  For through Christ is peace enjoyed

  As by the accepting of the blood of His sacrifice

  Shall the death of sin keep us free

  God's Mercy

  God who on me has mercy

  Has given me refuge

  Of this I do not pass subterfuge

  In this He is true

  Through every written word

  Which He has given to you and me

  Within God's Walls

  Within your walls, O Lord

  Are we free from violence and strife

  For beyond those walls all hell is rife

  It is not in your interest to all your Glory horde

  So You send out Your chosen

  To instill within the people, hope

  To one day within Your walls have life

  Righteous Boasting

  The wicked boast of their evil

  The righteous boast of God

  Which, in the eyes of God ,is a disgrace?

  For the wicked boasting is selfish

  The righteous boasting in man will instill

  A heart of loving grace

  The wicked instill a fate hellish

  Unlike the righteousness of God

  The Call

  Turn your ear

  For you shall hear

  The trumpets call

  For one and all

  Who declared Him King

  And to Him all glory sing

  The Savior of us all

  Empty vessel

  My soul thirsts

  For I have poured out

  All sins transgressions

  Weakened by all my confessions

  I am an empty vessel, lifeless

  But, by Your grace which is priceless

  In Your blood paid out

  Can the emptiness be replaced

  Filled with You

  Heavens reach

  I am to be meek

  As for Your Glory I seek

  And in so doing much wisdom may You teach

  While for heaven I reach

  Sin at bay

  On my knees I lay

  Towards you do I pray

  For Your helping hand

  To free me from the sin of the land

  So I may with You one day stand

  Joy in me abounds as sin from me stays at bay

  World's Test

  In the Lord I lay all trust

  For my life which is put to task

  And my heart for You is put to the test

  As the world from You tries to rest

  Me from Your grasp

  Overboard Love

  My love for the Lord

  For some can seem overboard

  But, I am guaranteed in the book to be stored

  And one day before the Lord stand

  Fruitful Words

  From the fruit of thy lips

  Shall thy life be guarded

  For if thy words God's glory seek

  One's outcome shall not seem bleak

  And thy righteousness

  Thus be far from weak

  Answer to Call

  Past sins I no longer recall

  For You promised to forget them all

  When my call to You was made

  And thus I was saved

  You cast them out

  And now can my life take a new route

  I can turn about

  Answer your call

  "Follow Me"

  Not afraid

  A Christian am I, cheerful

  For why should I be fearful

  The Lord is my shield

  And therefore I shall not yield

  To the sinful whims of the world

  True Mentor

  In the Book can one find a mentor

  But, truly on One can we centre

  As from Him came

  The key to enter

  The gates of heaven

  Which by His bloodshed

  I hope to have read

  My name from the Book

  Stand in Freedom

  We give praise to Him

  To Him we in Glory sing

  And all our sin and pain to Him we bring

  So that we in freedom stand,

  One day in the Glory of Thy Holy Land

  God's Church

  A Church filled to the brim

  Exceeding all concept of sin

  A church which was thought to come to ruin

  As all the member's skeletons from the closet came

  Far from everyone's delight

  Though, the church remained upright

  And on the pastors face centered a mighty grin

  As he knew, yes he knew

  God's Grace

  Upon the congregation stood

  And thus firm the church shall remain

  Your Day

  On Your Holy Day

  Is celebrated a holiday

  Unlike Fathers day

  Unlike Mothers day

  Unlike Workers day

  Unlike Youth day

  Unlike any other day

  On this day Your birth is celebrated

  On this day the world You entered

  So from sin we could be liberated

  And in heaven every day be Holy

  Transparent Living

  Unlike glass which is transparent

  Our lives in sin are in turmoil and are rampant

  The sin in our lives fluctuates

  We constantly ask God for rebates

  From the sum He already paid

  And when we finally obtain our translucent state

  The light of God through us may shine

  as a billboard sign

  To the promise He made

  That of eternity with Him

  Crucified

  Nailed to the cross

  You experienced untold pain

  As on it you were slain

  So we the sinner

  Eternal life may gain

  And a new life with you

  In eternity remain

  Standing Ground

  I stand my ground

  As you surround

  My every being

  And never are you distant

  From my heart

  Task Completed

  The task is done

  And you have won

  For us our fate eternal

  Life everlasting

  with the Almighty

  Uncontested

  Who can against Thee protest?

  You survived the wilderness-test

  Received 39 of the best

  And in the tomb laid to rest

  None can your resurrection contest

  In this I too many boast

  In the presence of the Holy Ghost

  Hindsight

  There is one which we need

  Of which we do not see

  Whose warnings we do not take heed

  Warnings which we mock

  For they spoil our hearts pleasure

  His love for us we can't measure

  We forget our troubled ends He has foreseen

  If only hindsight was an instant experience.

  Promise Foretold

  A promise has been made

  The foundations of which have been laid

  With the slaying of the Lamb

  By the house of Jacob

  Whose descendants now span the world

  The promise some have forgotten

  The promise some have denied

  This has not changed their prophesied fate

  The fate of their life's end

  To themselves have they lied

  In there sin they have died

  Denied themselves the Lamb

  Who died for their fate