“Just do it now,” my conscience said,
“The Word awaits. He will be read.
Bear fruit.” The drying branch is dead.
When pruned it’s cast away.
Injustice is a waste of time.
For some it turns into a crime,
but He will come, remove the grime.
Don’t end up wiped away.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration word “justice” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted in Poet’s Corner.
They left what’s wrong to darkened night
to rise and follow living light.
The way was narrow, true, but right.
That’s how they made it home.
Forsaking gods of mountains, trees,
of roiling, windy, mindless seas,
they listened through the silent breeze
and served the living LORD.
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Ronovan Hester offers the word “right” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted at Poet’s Corner.
Joshua 24:15 (KJV)
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
While fretting over loveless things
instead of what the Spirit brings,
I stifled joy. The church bell rings.
There’s sadness in the wind.
His way is true. His burden light.
He found me through the dark of night.
I once was bound to wrong, not right,
but that was long ago.
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Ronovan Hester offers “choice” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge.
The point of life is not to play
and while away the time of day.
We hear His voice and then obey.
We follow where He leads.
And if that is the most we do
no other path would get us through.
Rejoice and praise! Our hearts renew
and that is all that matters.
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Ronovan Hester offers the word “play” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
I wouldn’t say that I was good.
I rarely do the things I should.
I barely do the things I would
before the day is done.
Without some Help, who can get by?
The good one does makes others cry.
Rain down on me! My well is dry—
Ah! Now it’s gushing forth.
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Ronovan Hester offers the prompt word “good” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted at Poets Corner.
The Father’s God and Jesus, too.
The Holy Spirit filling you
who overflows and makes you new—
He’s also the same God.
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Ronovan Hester’s Ovi Poetry Challenge offers the word “equal” as inspiration. Posted also on Poet’s Corner.
The bottom line about the Trinity is that there’s a difference between absolute identity used in mathematics to allow for substituting terms (such as 1+1 which can be substituted with 2 only because 1+1 = 2 under all circumstances) and relative identity that works best in the real world (such as identifying the morning star with the evening star which are both equal or identical to Venus even though it doesn’t make sense to call Venus the evening star when you see it in the morning). Think of relative identity should you ever look at the Trinity as a logical puzzle. The Trinity also makes sense out of the philosophical problem of the One and the Many. If you don’t think the Trinity is in the Bible, read Matthew 3:16-17. All three Persons of the Trinity are at the baptism of Jesus by John. The fathers of the church taught the Trinity long before the Council of Nicaea.
I lost myself with some disgrace.
The mirror cringed to see my face.
I didn’t think it was a race
until I knew it was.
But that was then and now is now.
With soil turned beneath the plow
the seed was planted—God knows how—
and everything was changed.
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Ronovan Hester’s Ovi Poetry Challenge this week offers the word “race” as inspiration. Posted also at Poet’s Corner.
Depending only on the Lord
I took His word, a two-edged sword,
but left the demon’s sparkling hoard
I used to wish was mine.
That change of life I won’t forget:
within reborn without regret,
with joy the well, with river wet
which flows with living water.
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For Ronovan Hester’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Posted on Poet’s Corner.
Remember as the night moves in
before the day is through—
Jesus loves you—even you.
Let your heart be set on change.
Call upon His wondrous name.
You’ll find that you won’t be the same again.
Dale offers the prompt “the great wide open” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
These photos were taken long ago, but here’s a poem that is new:
From oceans to mountains to oceans again
with clouds in the sky and the birds coming in.
Skip down to the photos. In gratitude stay.
Give praise while you can. Oops. The birds flew away.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 