Perfection in imperfection

***** One thing I know so well A truth I need no convincing; I am a wretched soul And I am not what I want to be But am surely not what I used to be ***** I want to be perfect like my Lord Yet my heart wants her wickedness What a war I …

Distant pain

***** When I shall see that new Jerusalem and dwell there for a second then I shall forget all; the toil, pain, labor and pleasures of this earth. All that shall sink in a sea of unending joy as I spend time with my Lord. I will try to remember what it is to cry, …

Men at work in the harvest field

***** I am a man at work though you see me walk When I talk and share with others at work As I take a ride to work or take a stroll in the park Look at me carefully, and you will see my work I am a man at work in the harvest field …

The joy of having my savior

***** What a joy is it to have you Lord? To know when all falls, I can look above In the depth of my sorrow I see joy Beholding the one who grants me true joy The joy of having a Savior ***** When I walk in darkness I see light In sorrow I find …

Introducing the stranger; the bridegroom

***** Children fear strangers, they cry on sight of them but we calm them down and in time they grow to love these people even more than we could imagine, And at times more than they like us.  When we present the true gospel of Jesus, we should expect resistance. At times we will fail …

Ignorance is no bliss for us

  ***** The world without knowing it is a one massive display of the unknown world. We can speak of the invisible because God has carefully painted the unknown by the ink of what we know. It makes sense why Jesus had to take a human identity otherwise in a million years we wouldn't understand …

The man that drowned the demons

***** The screams from the graveyard are no more The wailing by night is now ceased Children play by the plains in joy People of Gerasene sleep in heavenly peace As demons are drowned by Jesus command ***** Here he comes the man who housed the legion See his beautiful linen, now a man of …

Create in me a new heart

***** See this tainted soul oh Lord! Shattered and naked within How can I live in it any longer? Hear my cry to you now Create in me a new heart ***** What mess of a house I dwell in! For uncleanliness is bred within Am enslaved to this deceitful heart Come to my rescue …