Living in God's Rhyme
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Can you believe in something you don’t have faith in?
Must you have faith to believe?
I believe that to believe in good things one must have faith in those things/people/institutions.
Our faith in God, the one true God of creation, the Father of our Savior Jesus Christ and whose Holy Spirit dwells within those who believe, will lead us to the right beliefs as we live on this earth.
FAITH WITHOUT TRUST
As I look back at the miles,
Seeing the tears and the smiles,
Having stirred up so much dust,
Why did I think that I must?
I do believe all that you have for me
And I know that who I am you see,
That you have plans for what I should be.
That you want us to be we.
To one father Jesus asked if he believed,
Believed that his child would be healed and live?
To which the man replied, I believe,
Help me overcome my unbelief.
I don’t know about you,
But that is me.
I have faith that God’s word is true,
That his promises are real.
He has changed me, I am made anew.
I have on my heart his seal.
But there are times I feel left out,
When I have doubt
About what he has planned,
About where with him I stand.
I sometimes wander about.
My faith, what is it
As I try to make it fit
Into the ways of the world
As at night I lay curled,
Curled up in a ball
Waiting for his call.
On one of my good days
We had a talk, God and me.
I had taken the time
To read of his ways.
I think he was pleased
That I had taken the time
And in that time it was me,
It was me that he seized.
He told me that my faith,
Though ever growing,
Would never be what it could
If I didn’t trust.
I need to trust when I am fearful,
I need to trust when I am tearful,
I need to trust in the good times
And when there are no rhymes.
If I truly accept the death of his Son
For my salvation, my redemption,
For his promise of eternity,
Then I need to not just believe.
I need to trust that he
Is in control always,
And in all ways,
No matter what I see.
He loves me,
He blesses me,
And as my trust in
His promises,
His word grows,
My faith will also.
© 2018, Living In God’s Rhyme, Tim Carter
WHAT HAVE I DONE FOR YOU?
There are those days when the sky is blue.
And then there comes that one day
When the sky is filled with clouds of gray.
On that day what have I done for you?
It is easy to talk as through life we walk,
To share the smiles as we walk the miles,
As we walk that mile that once in awhile
Is filled with pain as the gray clouds rain.
It is that mile that I must be aware
That even though I know you are there
That you need more from me.
You need me to help you see.
I have walked that mile alone
When my heart has turned to stone.
I have stumbled along that road
Struggling with my life’s heavy load.
It is at these times of being in need
I do not want what I know I need.
It is then that I need someone
To remind me of God’s Son.
So as we walk under skies of gray,
It is then that I need to pray,
Pray, not alone, but with you
That you may see the sky of blue.
I need to let you know
That there is a rainbow
Above the day’s gray cloud
That is like a darkened shroud.
I will take your hand and pray
That we will not be led astray,
That as we walk we will talk
And let God’s reign fall on us.
THE GENTLENESS OF FAITH
Our faith is a reflection
That upon recollection
By those whose lives we passed.
Will see a love that lasts.
Our faith is not quarrelsome,
We speak in gentle tones
To those who do not know the Son
So they see the love he has shown.
His spirit may raise our voice,
Though never in anger, but in joyful song
Of a love that will make eyes moist
As the lost find that for which they do long.
Love is gentle in its forgiving
As shown by how we were living,
That as Christ redeemed us at the cross
So now we may live without the loss,
The loss of,
The love of his promise,
The gift of his grace,
That with Christ we will rise
When his call will end our race.
For God so loved us he gave his only Son
So we could join him and be the ones
To share,
To care,
To be there,
Anywhere
He calls,
Standing tall
So others hear
There is no fear
In God’s embrace
As the world we face.
Without love for others,
For our sisters and brothers,
Our faith is but mist in the air.
So how to the lost do we share?
Pray that our faith leaves no question
Of who God is and who we are in him.
May the gentle love of God
Be the gentleness of our faith.
Reflection on The Gentleness of Faith
I was led, or more likely I meandered, through four books before getting the inspiration for this poem. It came from 2 Timothy 2:24.
And the Lords servant must not be quarrelsome
But must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful.
© 2018, Living In God’s Rhyme, Tim Carter
GOD’S RHYME (last stanza)
I’ve seen God
how odd He seems
in faces I meet
as life races by
I pick up my feet
from the burning street
& see a smile
from a simple child
picking a wild flower
an hour is not measured by minutes
for a while is time
& the simple oddity in life
Is God’s rhyme
© 2019, God’s Rhyme, Tim Carter
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