Here’s a poem and hymn I’m writing for you today:
Life’s long journey may seem fast,
Each day’s work can make it last,
Long into the dark of night,
Keeping earthly things in sight.
Lift our vision to the skies,
Heaven’s place where we’ll arise.
Doff the cares of shallow days,
Look unto its golden rays.
Set your thoughts on things ahead,
Where Christ sits up from the dead.
Never let the world defy,
All the blessings by and by.
So, this day let’s give our all,
Answering the Father’s call.
Stoked and set and ready bent,
Doing, going where we’re sent!
Amen. I love you.
I remember seeing “Old Faithful” at Yellowstone Park years ago with Sherry and our very young son. One of our spiritual fruit is “faithfulness.” Jesus was the example of that in trusting his Father and believing the Scriptures. Psalm 20 heralds what he would be and do.
Psalm 18 in the “Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic of The Peshitta” by George M. Lamsa has some great truth. It reminds me of our Father’s loving strength and support. And it is all through the Messiah, His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Communicating is what life is about. Yet how I talk to our two-year-old granddaughter, one of my middle-school students, or my wife is very different. God communicates with us even more personally through His Word. He had people filled with his spirit write it down [II Peter 1:21]. It came in human form as God’s Son, who made known his Father [John 1:14,18].
