Taking Heed

Yup, Scripture is like food, isn't it? With it, we grow vigorous, without we fade, lose strength. This has been a year for me of really sinking into the Word. Psalm 37:3-4 says to feed on God's faithfulness (NKJV), and one way we do that is that we see His faithfulness throughout the Scriptures.

Hey Tommy, I wrote a poem last week that I think you might like. You may have seen it on gratitude & hoopla, but I'm reprinting it here just in case you missed it. I'm calling it Taking Heed, which is a title inspired by 1 Cor 10:12, where it says, "Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall."

I cannot master me.
Oh, I would give my all, and yet my all
evades my grasp, eludes my fine intentions--
my heart confounds my every sound conviction,
and secret sin bedevils all my thought.

I do not know myself.
I would be strong, stand firm, fight hard,
and yet my will proves wavering, and all my hope
is hope mislaid--so yet again I find
I lead myself astray.

Lord, help thou my unbelief.
Be thou my brave-heart, my strong-will, my warrior king!
Let me not put hope where hope is always vain,
but be my only worthiness, my everything.
Let me be weak in your strong name.

Silence my pitter-patter tongue.
I come before a shining king and also a lamb slain;
angels and rainbows accompany his reign.
Let his shed blood speak for me
its better name.