HIS WORD MAY IT LEAD US
Matthew, Mark Luke and John,
Paul, Peter, Timothy and Jude,
Books and letters written
To show us the way to God’s love,
The love of his sacrifice,
The love of his grace,
The love he has for us,
The human race.
Jesus said,
Believe,
Be baptized
And spread the Gospel.
We should not only pray,
Pray every day,
For those who have not heard
His mighty saving word.
We should speak
So that we reach
Those souls we know
Of the gift we have received
So they will not be deceived.
We need to shout
To the world about
That Jesus saves,
He is what God gave
So the end will be better,
So it will not be bitter.
After Thoughts
As believers we can meet in clusters
So that faith and desire we can muster
That as we leave the room
We do not have a sense of doom
But the faith to share,
Share that we care,
That others hear
What we hold dear
To our hearts
So they may start
To see what they can be
That when with Jesus
They will be free.
© 2018, Living in God’s Rhyme, Tim Carter
PODCAST 5
THE LOVE GOD GIVES
On his head thorns for a crown,
The thorns of my transgression.
Because he loved me I bow down
And profess to him my confession.
An all knowing God who created all we know,
Knowing the good and bad seeds we would sow
Still breathed into each one of us life,
Knowing that he one day pay would the price.
I wonder as I write these stanzas of words
Why, if he knew we would become a herd
Of wandering sheep,
His word he still keeps.
Though he knew our sin, our wandering ways
His love never wanders, the same it stays.
Yes, he is a just God who will punish
The unrepentant who refuse to believe.
But his love is always there
When we are ready to share,
To share in his reign,
That removes our shame.
He is a just God,
A righteous God,
He is a God of love,
He is a God of glory.
The Holy love of God
Forgives, it gives
Hope and blessing,
Joy in our sadness,
It lifts us up
As we share the cup,
The blood of his covenant
With the lost remnant.
From us he deserves
Our constant praise
As he preserves
Our living days.
And sometimes I wonder
Why he gave us free will
Knowing we would wander,
Knowing he would love us still.
His ways are not our ways.
Thankfully we should pray
A prayer of thanksgiving
That with him we are living.
Knowing all, who would hear his call,
He prepared for those who believe
That he alone is Holy in Glory,
A promise at the end of the story.
It is a story of his love,
The pain of his love,
The magnitude of his love,
The forgiveness of his love,
And the hope of his love.
He sent Jesus to deliver the message,
To pay the price to make us right,
To show the way, to open the door
That we may forever live in his sight.
Thank you, Lord
For your love for me,
Your love for my neighbor.
Thank you, Lord,
Thank you for eternity.
© 2018, Living in God’s Rhyme, Tim Carter
HIS EMBRACE
His arms are open
to those whose lives are broken.
That is you, it is me,
it is everyone we see.
He died
that we might
be made right
in his sight.
By death
our sins he overcame
so we can be the same,
we can share his reign.
Through resurrection
so we may be risen,
released from our prison,
new life he has given.
Our lives were broken,
faith but a token,
a gesture, not a true sacrifice
to forgive the sins of our life.
Through love
He stretched out his arms,
delivered us from harm
and died.
He died for us,
God’s son Jesus.
His life he did give
that sinners might live.
And he reaches out
that we might believe,
no longer in doubt
and no longer deceived.
Through truth
we have been set free
so that all can see
the Christmas story
in its final glory.
To a world that is broken
his loving arms are open
to share his embrace
as we run this race.
© 2019, Living in God Still Rhymes, Tim Carter
THE RETURN
listen –
I hear,
I hear a whisper;
a sound
ever so gentle,
as if a cool breeze
comforting
in the heat
were found
when standing still.
Shh . . . . .
I hear it again,
calling,
calling me, . . . “come,
come,
you are falling,
feel My arms,
I will catch you.”
“I’ll comfort you son.”
Oh, thank you Father,
I love You, I missed You.”
“Welcome home,
We rejoice in your homecoming,
son.”
“Your room
is as you left it;
as are you & I,
as we once were.”
The water drops
on His sleeve
were not from storm clouds;
gone they now are.
No, my tears fell,
fell freely
on His majestic robes of grace.
He so loved me
and rejoiced in my return.
I wept
joyfully
in His arms,
My Father,
My Redeemer,
My God.
The Return, a recurring them. One I wish I didn’t have to write about, but am glad that I can write about it. No matter what I may do, when I repent, God will always welcome me back. And when I later realized God when I wonder, I also realized that I must also forgive myself. If I don’t, I am still distant from God until I do forgive myself.
© 2018, Living in God’s Rhyme, Tim Carter
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