SPACE AND TIME IN MIND

Space and time balance their beauty in my mind.

Ocean waves I'm watching intently plan their crests and break upon the beach where God and I are mapping our future.

Sunlight rests upon our world oblivious to its wars and so for a time I forget why we fight.

Treasured moments suspend the universe in space and give their sweetness in precious healing time to mortal labourers.

Generous portions of distance and duration equalise within my mind as the story of life unfolds.

I'm here to help I suppose,

I'll find a way before I die

To serve the Lord with space and time in mind.

08-12-09

Scripture Reference:
 Ecclesiastes 5:12-13

Find a way to serve the Lord

LAKESIDE SCENE

1.
Take me to a lakeside scene,
To dream of childhood happiness,
In playgrounds of purity
Filled with enfolding friendships of perfect trust,
Where clear eternal waters shine.

2.
Give me space in which to live,
Peacefully bringing good news to light,
In classrooms of integrity
Where biblical brainwaves synchronise,
With kindred minds that feast on holy wisdom.

3.
Position me in a family tree,
Secured from evil threats to my nest,
In theatres of dignity,
Among ancient personalities laid to rest,
In a large tree, with a high nest, in an awkward place to be.

4.
Ground me in the fertile soil of hope,
To bring forth spiritual fruit in time,
As receptive roots reverentially absorb essential healing virtues,
From minerals of meekness legally entitled,
To their rightful place on earth.

5.
Centralise me in the spherical expectations
Of polarities produced from infinity,
Where for theological reasons of predestined design,
Wavelength tensions build in strength
And disperse their manifest content.

6.
Humanise me in the equilibrious realities of cataclysmic compromise,
And modify me skilfully in maturity and growth,
To metamorphose with lowliness of heart,
Emerging from times of trial and tribulation,
As a conqueror of evil, a modest and merciful judge.

7.
Complete me in the perfect love of Christ.

8.
Resurrect me to eternal life.

9.
Finalise me as a saint.

10.
Command me to fulfill my calling.

Humiliation..... HUMILIATION..... Humiliation

Who

is this who mocks,

Who is this who scorns,

Who is this who makes for me,
A crown of prickly thorns ?

Who
is this who whips,
Who is this who flays,

Who is this who bruises me,
Until I'm in a daze ?

Who

is this who injures me,
With nails through my hands,

Who with spike impales my feet,
While no-one understands ?

Who

is this who wounds me,
With barbs around my head,

Who is this who makes me bleed,
And suffer 'til I'm dead ?

Who

has worn this crown,
Who has known its pain,

Who has died like Jesus when,
He took away our shame ?

Tell

whoever mocks,
Tell whoever scorns,

Tell these I forgive them all,
Beneath my crown of thorns.

Everyone

who wounds me,
 And messes with my head,

Everyone

who makes me bleed,
I bless them back instead.

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27-07-05

.........................THE MINEFIELD.........................

I see a child wandering in a minefield.

The mines are destructive; people get hurt when they blow up.

The child is disobedient.

Warnings were given, barriers were placed, but the child is being enticed.

There is something attracting the child into the minefield.

I see an enemy enticing the child further into the minefield.

The enemy is a liar; people get hurt when they believe him.

The enemy is beautiful.

Colours and shapes, music and sounds, drama and oratory,

Games and sport, recreation and hobbies, work and success, knowledge and literature;

The enemy uses something in all of these to lure his prey away.

I see the minefield looking innocent.

The surface shows no sign of the assassins beneath the soil.

The mines are cleverly designed.

This is not the territory for an unsuspecting child to stray or be led into;

This is not the place for childhood play.

I do not see wisdom here.

The clever mines, the beautiful enemy, the errant child;

The minefield waits to take advantage of an absence, a lack, a deficit.

I see a failure that allows too much freedom.

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12-08-05

Scriptural Inspiration:

Rom.6:15; 1 Tim.4:1; 2 Pet.2:1,2,3.

ADHESIONS IN EPHESIANS

A Reason To Rhyme When These Headings We Find:

Ephesians 4:1-32

UNITY

(1) I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation by which you are called,
(2) With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love;
(3) Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
(4) There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling;
(5) One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
(6) One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

VICTORY

(7) But to every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
(8) Wherefore He saith, When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.
(9) Now that He ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
(10) He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all heavens, that He might fill all things.

MINISTRY

(11) And He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
(12) For the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ:

MATURITY

(13) Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God; to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:
(14) That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive:
(15) But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, who is the head, even Christ:
(16) From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body to the edifying of itself in love.

VANITY

(17) This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
(18) Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

IMPURITY

(19) Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
(20) But you have not so learned Christ;
(21) If indeed you have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
(22) That you put off concerning the former manner of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts:
(23) And be renewed in the Spirit of your mind;
(24) And that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

INTEGRITY

(25) Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
(26) Be you angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
(27) Neither give place to the devil.
(28) Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needs.

PROFANITY

(29) Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers.
(30) And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed to the day of redemption.
(31) Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

CHRISTIANITY

(32) And be you kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.

The Summary is that in Unity with Victory our Ministry brings Maturity which is free of Vanity and cleansed of Impurity while we act with Integrity and reject Profanity as we promote Christianity.

Blessings to all from Michael.


 24-08-08

YOU ARE A POEM

You are a poem written by God,

Composed for a purpose

Though some think you odd.



You're a walking, talking work of art,

Ordained so by God

Right through from the start.



Your skills, abilities, talents and gifts,

 Are for the giving of glory

To the One who uplifts.



You yourself are to all near and far,

A picture and letter

Yes, a poem you are.

26-09-08

Scriptural Inspiration:

Ephesians 2:8-10 "For by grace are you saved, through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: (9) Not by works, lest any man should boast. (10) For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them."

Romans 1:20 "For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead;"

2Corinthians 3:2-3 "But you are our letter, and you are in our hearts for everyone to read and understand. (3) You are like a letter written by Christ and delivered by us. But you are not written with pen and ink or on tablets made of stone. You are written in our hearts by the Spirit of the living God."

Reference from Strong's Concordance

G4161

ποίημα

poiēma

poy'-ay-mah

From G4160; a product, that is, fabric (literally or figuratively): - thing that is made, workmanship.

Author's Quote: "An amazing thing about art is that it can imitate life, but without life there would be no art."

FINAL MOVE

A woman walked into our church one night

And told us her name was Lorna;

She stayed for a year

And we gave her our care,

As still she fought her own corner.

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The needy and homeless were her great concern,

And those who came out of prison;

But money was short

And her mission was fraught,

With chaos strife and confusion.

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The wonderful blessings of our Lord Jesus

Were always Lorna's sweet message;

She knew that His love

Could lift people above,

Their shadowy past and its wreckage.

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A faithful good many people worked hard,

To give this dear widow support;

But the truth must be told

She was getting too old,

To endure fatigue of this sort.

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Lorna was lumbered with shifting great loads,

This year her moves numbered seven;

Now things will improve

With this last final move;


TO LIFE ETERNAL IN HEAVEN.


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In memory of Lorna Anne Taylor, 18th November 1928 - 12th May 2004.


14-05-04