A CLOSER WALK
A
CLOSER WALK
Just A Closer Walk With Thee
I am weak but Thou art strong,
Jesus keep me from all wrong;
I'll be satisfied as long,
as I walk, let me walk close
to Thee.
When my feeble life is o're,
Time for me shall be no
more;
Guide me gently to that
shore,
Let me walk, dear Lord,
close to Thee.
Just a closer walk with
Thee,
grant it Jesus is my plea;
Daily walking close to Thee,
Let it be, dear Lord, let
it be.
Life is a journey..from the cradle to the grave....on this journey
we find many curves, many hills and many valleys....there are detours..crossroads
and forks in the road....So many choices we all must make in this thing
called Life's journey. Sometimes we don't feel as close to God as we would
like to and we may wonder if He has forsaken us. The truth of the matter
is this..God promised that He would never leave us or forsake us, so if
we are not as close as we one time were, it was us that walked away and
not Him. If we turn around and look for Him, we will find Him patiently
waiting for us to come back closer to Him.
Am I Lost?
by: Dennis Hook
I was walking and thinking
I was hardly blinking
where was I going?
why was I there?
I knew in a moment
My mind had went dorment
I must have lost me
But who will now care?
I must go find me
Where had I left me?
What was I doing ?
When was I there ?
Who had last seen me ?
How would I know,would I still care ?
It is is all right,
God has found me!
Why was I worried?
someone did care!
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"For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should
not perish, but have everlasting life."
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"But they that wait upon the
Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
they shall run, and not be weary; and shall walk, and not faint."
ISAIAH�40:31 |
About 22 years ago I ran across
this poem, It really touched something inside of me...As the years have
passed I have seen this poem become more and more of a reality. Since it
made such an impression on my mind and my heart, I would like to share
it with you here.
The Church Went Walking
With The World
The Church and the world walked
far apart on the changing shores of time,
The world was singing a giddy
tune, the Church a hymn sublime;
�Come, give me your hand,�said
the merry world.�and walk with me this way.�
But the good Church hid her
snowy hands and solomnly answered,�Nay,
I will not give you my hand
at all, and I will not walk with you,
your ways are the ways that
lead to death; and your words are all untrue.�
�Nay, walk with me but a little
space,� said the world with a timely air;
�the road I walk is a pleasant
road� and the sun shines always there;
your path is thorny, rough
and rude, but mine is broad and plain.
My way is paved with flowers
and dews, and yours with tears and pain.
The sky to me is always blue,
no want no toil I know;
The sky above you is always
dark and your lot is a lot of woe
. There is room enough for
you and me to travel side by side.�
Half shyly, the church approached
the world and gave him her hands of snow
and the old world grasped
it and walked away, saying in accents low,
"Your dress is too simple
to please my taste, I will give you pearls to wear,
Rich velvets, and silks for
your graceful form, and diamonds to deck your hair."
The Church looked down at
her plain white robe and then at the dazzling world,
and blushed as she saw his
handsome lips with a smile contemptuous curled.
"I will change my dress
for a costlier one" said the Church with a smile of grace;
then her pure white garments
drifted away, and the world gave in their place,
Beautiful satins and shinning
silks, Roses and gems and costly pearls;
While over her forehead her
bright hair fell, crisped in a thousand curls.
"Your house is too plain,"
said the proud old world,"I'll build you one like mine,
with walls of marble and towers
of gold, and furniture ever so fine."
So he built her a costly and
beautiful house, most splendid it was to behold;
Her sons and her beautiful
daughters dwelt there, gleaming in purple and gold.
Rich fairs and shows in the
halls were held, and the world and his children were there.
Laughter and music and feasts
were heard in the place that was meant for prayer.
There were cushioned seats
for the rich and the gay, to sit in their pomp and pride.
But the poor who were clad
in shabby array, sat meekly down outside.
"You give too much to
the poor," said the world,"Far more than you ought to do;
If they are in need of shelter
and food, why need it trouble you?"
"Go, take your money
and buy rich robes, buy horses and carriages fine;
buy pearls and jewls, and
dainty food, buy the rarest and costliest wine."
"My children, they dote
on all these things and if you their love would win;
You must do as they do and
walk in the ways that they are walking in."
So the poor were turned from
her door in scorn, and she heard not the orphans cry,
But she drew her beautiful
robes aside as the widows went weeping by.
Then sons of the world and
the sons of the church walked closely, hand and heart,
And only the Master who knoweth
all, could tell the two apart.
Then the Church sat down at
her ease and said,"I am rich and my goods increase.
I have need of nothing or
ought to do, but to laugh and dance and feast."
The sly world heard and he
laughed in his sleeve, and mockingly said aside,
"The Church is fallen,
the beautiful Church and her shame is her boasts and her pride."
Then the Angel drew near to
the mercy seat, and whispered in sighs her name'
Then the loud anthems of rapture
were hushed and heads were covered in shame.
And a voice was heard at last
by the Church, from Him who sits on the throne;
"I know thy works, and
how thou hast said, "I am rich," and hast not known,
that thou art naked, poor
and blind and wretched before my face,
Therefore from my presence
cast I thee out, and blot thy name from it's place"
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end.
One Step At A Time
......................................................By...ISparrow
When Moses came up to the
big red sea,
he said,"Lord won't
you part these waters for me"
The waters rolled back,
they left Pharaoh behind,
and kept on walking , one
step at a time.
As Joshua's people marched
around Jerico,
what the Lord had in mind
they just didn't know
The walls fell flat, in
the Bible we find
after seven times around
it, one step at a time.
Two Lepers sat all alone
one day,
why sit here till we die
one leper did say;
The people of the city heard
an awful sound,
was just two lepers walking
into town.
One step at a time, Oh Lord,
One step at a time.
I know there's still another
mountain that I have to climb.
But I'll just keep walking,
till I leave my troubles behind,
One step at a time, Oh Lord,
One step at a time.
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