Sunday, December 26, 2021

Biblical Doxology

 Biblical Doxology - 

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with

every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.

                                                                - Ephesians 1:3

For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things.  To Him be glory forever. Amen.

                                                                - Romans 11:36

Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.

                                                                - Ephesians 5:14

He was manifested in flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations,

believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

                                                                  - 1 Timothy 3:16

Monday, December 20, 2021

My Doxology

I love you my God!

 My Doxology for God alone

 My hands are lifted high in praise

               My God who deserves it so

For struggles seem to hide His grace

               Exalt Him from whom all blessings flow.

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Total Depravity

The best sins so very foul  (T)

    Darken my weary soul

Say I, Free Will! I must, I save!

    A millions years, never! But to the grave.


Adam and Eve befell the Devil's spell.

    Our federal head's deadly destiny for a lie 

Why O why can't I  salvation compel

    Through my power and strength still to die.


Unconditional Election

Why does He choose me so? (U)

               The answer I cannot find.

My good manners and manifest power show?

               No! His good pleasure and unrevealed mind.


The love of God is oh so pure

    that before the world's foundation

Even finding the path to hell so sure

    His perfect mercy bought my salvation


Limited Atonement 

Oh what a terrible curse is Adam’s fall (L)

               The Triune’s plan before creation doth atone.

But hath Christ saved the world, all in all?

               Nay! The King died for His sheep alone.


Christ died for all, states the universalist

    For God so loved the world

But wait, not so says the Christian purist

    He calls only His own whose ears unfurled

    

Irresistible Grace (Effectual Calling)

 Run hard, run swift, run far away  (I)

    From my Savior who dearly waits

But His love tempts me to stay

    Until the Gospel's demand He creates


God draws me to His kingdom by force

    Kicking and screaming my back to the wall

Yet His kind mercy, a matter of course

    Yields mine heart to His effectual call


Perseverance of the Saints

Jesus loves me, I cannot tell  (P)

    One foot in heaven, one foot in hell

But the Lord has sealed me forevermore

    To walk with Him upon eternity's Celestial shore.


Not knowing our hope is sadness

    But God preserves to finish the race

Our soul finds joyful gladness

   As we gaze into His glorious face



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The cross, atoning justification

    The head bowed low, knees gently bent

Crucified in gross supplication

    God! Yet man His blood hath spent!


A desolate and wicked corpse am I

    God's righteous wrath ruins me

Sins so foul never escape His eye

    Man O man cannot from His justice flee.


My love of Christ even a minute finds me wanting

    Sin prevents, my scheming heart prolong

But the Spirit set's the soul a-searching

    For the hope within my heart belong

But the Spirit set's my soul a-craving

    For a sliver of true love that is oh so strong


Our God, great Savior how can this be?

    Your love for the elect never wavers.

Abundant thanks for opening our eyes to see

    All worthless sinners for the Word to save us.


You rule in absolute sovereignty

    An iron hand your justice stands

And you demand from us glorious piety

   Tenderly bestow grace as your love commands


My sin, Adam's sin a disaster

    Forever destined, the curse of death

But assuredly saved by the Master

   Our joy as far as heaven's breadth


The Love of Christ that never fails  (valentines day)

    Our joyous refrain unfold the way

His hands pounded, pierced by spike and nails

    Proclaim His raging love this Valentine's day.


Truly God and truly human

    Incarnate Christ authors our salvation

Alas disobedience rejects His communion

    Still bestows mercy to a chosen nation.


Difficult not to praise Your sovereign grace,

    My soul, in love with you my Savior

Thou affectionate smile at my homely face

    Find joy in forgiven fault and unmerited favor.


There must be other paths to God - the almighty

    Christ is not enough so they say

A blasphemous lie, a godly catastrophe 

    Jesus is the Truth, the Life and the ONLY Way


Pure heaven our joyful assurance

    In that your mercy and love explode

Bestows our soul a hopeful endurance

    Forever thanks, our praises flow


Impotent God knows not what the future hold

    He cannot guarantee the outcome

Arminian man has the will to be so bold

   And God to him win's some and lose some.


Justification alone is absurd Finney says

    We have the power not to sin

But no matter how and in so many ways

    Sin always overtakes us and Oh Man! never to win


Our lives are always running forward

    In an effort to praise You

And our hearts always moving toward

    A furious love that springs anew


Should we throw the Law away

    The old covenant now so stale

But His commandments we still obey

    For God's true nature does not fail


The ineffable love of God (or God's ineffable love so true

    Too much for our minds to bear

 But our voices rejoice so bold

   That nothing in the universe compares


Satan's shames us attacks everything and in between

    But once and for all our conscience reprieved

    The mighty Blood of Christ washes us clean

From eternal guilt we are cleaved/grieved

  

True faith a gift from God so glorious

    Sinners, so hard to always believe

Try to live our lives for Jesus vicarious

    Honor, praise and glory in return we give.


Faith, God's gift so undeserved

    Yet we strive not to receive it

Covenant promise given without reserve

    Compel our grateful hearts to submit


A great gift, a beautiful Mom  (Mother's Day)

    The heavens raises a joyful dove

A sister in Christ builds a wonderful home

    Signed and sealed with love from above


The greatness of a Mother can always be (Mother's Day)

    Shining, stunning with a crown of glory    

God's unique gift for eyes to see

    Truly fits in His redemptive Story


Mother's Day 2024(Stephanie)

A wise mother is a family's strength,

    And working hands will surely show

That God's love has no width or length,

   His grace for her, fills to overflow.


Mother's day 2023 (for Donna)

A mother's love that will not fail,

    God's mercy and grace for her to avail.

A husband's heart that swells with pride,

    No doubt, wed again his glorious bride.


God has granted me a glorious gift.

Undeserved, yet my heart it lifts,

To wonderous heights of passion so giving

And without her my life not worth living,

For my wife graciously blessed from above

Never to forget, always to cherish, always to love.

Happy Birthday! 20230927

=======Retreat==========

 Sadness through this weekend came

       Lives falling in a confused tangle

Men living with vigorous regret and shame

    Reaching, grasping for heaven's example 


Still stands in our way is one perilous fault

    To be dealt with at a desperate pace

Once destroyed, open heaven's vault

   And see our Father's magnificent face.


Always life finds us wanting

    God hides not from us, eternally there

Man's search undone, ever failing 

     Our hearts for God alone, we cannot spare

      

The maturity of men, difficult to find

    .A spiritual journey, life's gruesome test

Obstacles of every different kind

    Persevere 'til death but still not our best


The Easter message ever rings true

    Christ, a sniless life for thrity three years

On Calvary's hill blood shed for our lives anew

    Removes our wordly fears.



Justified by His love for us

    Can we  truly ever know

Our Savior in whom we trust

 He gave His life, our God! To truly show

==============Pain ============

Life deals me a bitter defeat

    God's plan I did not meet

But along with profound agony

    My Lord opened my eyes to see


That I control not my fate

Still His care gentle and great

Feebly my aching heart wants more

Ably to crawl, to climb, to soar.


Where O God, I find no trace?

    Far from my stinging soul

Find not your kind, forbearing face

    In my world so greedy and foul 


But 'tis I who cannot find

    You O God have never left

Forever still, merciful and kind

    Though unseen have guided my path


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The Mirror of Man

More frightening, screaming place of awe

    This earth, this dirt a cruel place to be born

For we travel, humans, through this fateful life

    As always strive for more, nevertheless forlorn.

But ahh, we grasp at things known and unknown,

    And find that fatefully we live as men of scorn


I gaze in the mirror for the face of faith

    But only a shadow's future ruining in decay

My hope dashed and gone as a wisp in the wind

    Days of running and turning finally back as they

Perhaps to seek a Savior who seeks me

    That today He found a soul adrift, this very day


The despair of man, now defeated

    Nights of hopelessness never to lament

My God who descends so low to meet me

   My journey starts to soberly repent

I gaze in the mirror at the face of faith

    My Jesus, living, loving, magnificent.

May 2023


The glint in my eye

The glint in my eye that precious Jesus comes someday                                                                 

The glint on my hand found in work and in play

The glint in the moon, as I write, in shadows of gray

The glint on the road finds paths of dismay

The glint of my sin will send me to hell they say

The glint of forgiveness, these sins, thrown far away

The glint in my soul found longing to repay

The glint in my heart knows there is no way

The glint of God's mercy so loving and aye

The glint of heaven's jewels and gold on display 

For the glint of hope that my precious Jesus comes today

May 2023

My wife My Love

Against the sun our Love fades as parched paper
Against the moon our Love hides in the shadows
Has our Love gone like an old song long forgetten
Struggling to sieze that fierce love again

We grasp but like a mist, is gone in an instant.
How, how can I find the unsearchable longing,
The passion as a furious ocean is gone forever.
Why, why has my love so much diminished.

But the love of Christ formidable still
Heavens bounty like sheets of cooling rain
Has given my the joy of loving
Loving Christ always and forever

Ahh how can I not love my wife.
My precious joy, my intimate affection
Against the sun our Love brilliant still
Against the moon our Love uncovered thrill

The Glory of God
We fight for our 
 
Death's Door
Death's door swings open wide
For we  to enter our feet to slide
On the far side of the vale we find
Young and old, short and tall all in line

Our journey through life full of despair
Toiling with hands of work to repair
Sickness approaches at every turn
Another  simple breath we fail to earn

At times or two we live so joyous
A baby born, a wedding glorious
Strolling through fields of amber grain
Skipping through puddles in a Spanish rain

A delicate balance of lows and highs
Falling, stumbling, then reach for the sky
How can we live in a world so indifferent
At every turn, men so belligerent

Heavy is death's door, slightly tinted
The wood, antique with shards so wilted
Many is the soul that passed this way
Never to return forever and a day

The door now leisurely closing
One final gasp haplessly disclosing
That we cannot stop it unto the end
Eternity in hell or heaven for us to spend

The choice we see so very clear
To decide when alive, cowering in fear
The right decision forever more
Oh stop! Creaking, closing relentless door 

The final glimpse of life for us to peek
A few inches more as tears fall from our cheek
Has the tempting harlot seized our very soul
Our lives without regard to the One, oh so foul

The door now shut, not with a slam
But the quiet, sighing hush of a lamb
A lifelong journey between love and hate
On the vale's other side we await our fate

july 2023

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Sexual lust my heart strives for

    Forgetting God in my mind and soul

I try and turn but want much more

    Falling, stumbling, a night so foul


But like David whose sin so dire

    Sought to find God's grace again

Inevitable  consequence, a blazing fire

    Can't escape the unending, wrenching pain 

        


In Progress....

Praise Him, Praise the Father Praise the Spirit,

    All things should give glory to All,

But our hearts are fallen and sinful

     Because of Adams gigantic fall

So we praise discreetly thoughtful 

    And through our life and to the grave we shall    






From Belgic    

    as much as we need in this life,

        for God's glory

        and for our salvation

            ** God gets the glory yet he saves us...

ineffable

immorality

bitter passion

disobedience

he paid back what he had not stolen

renders believers perfect forever

Christ is not enough is greatest blasphemy against God

brother and sisters all over the world

Pure Doxology

How I love God so, 

Why? Because of his Son who came to save

I don't deserve such love because I'm a great sinner destined for hell, 

but out of His mercy He saves

So what can I do but give thanks, profusely

And give glory to Him always. Soli Deo Gloria!

Shall I begrudge other Christians of their doxology?

Forgive me for thinking myself so highly.

What is doxology - a word or song of praise. 

Why is doxology important - to praise God without ceasing! Always! Forever!

A Calvinist is know for his Doxology.

CS Lewis Quote

"For my part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await others.  I believe that many who find that 'nothing happens' when they sit down. or kneel down, to a book of devotion would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand. "

Sometimes devotions are only something to get through from. Read and done

Thank you Lord for allowing me to worship you and love you.

Let my ears hear and eyes see in all, Doxology. 

Lord, a major disappointment not keeping the class.  My fault! For we know all things work together for Your good according to Your will for those who Love You!  Amen!

But Your love is so wonderful, glorious, unending, crazy, unbelievable, perfect. My diploma was sent to me last week (03/12/22)

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Dort - justice and mercy kiss in the cross of Christ.

TBA - Trust in the Lord with all your heart.., Be anxious for nothing.., For we know ! that All things

work together for good...

05/03/2022 - In a disjointed space last couple of weeks. Is it because there is no men's meeting?  Is it because missing church?  Is it because losing faith? Feeling not close to God.  Kind of tired of studying.  Listening to Christian music though, Still praising and worshiping God.  But definitely not on a mountain top.  Still trying to be faithful.  Still believing in God's covenant promise. Wonderful Donna is still at it.  Listening, studying and moving forward.


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