Category: verse blog

Yet To Be # 73

to every thing there is a season

The Relatable…

The search to find understanding is endless.

The need to share wants and desires with others is satisfying to our thirsty souls.

To create connections builds within the breast as surely the heart beats;

Making the ability to relate to another as the framework of mankind, so deep is the engraining.

It makes no difference when opposites attract, they too can form a whole;

But when there is a chasm within the whole and that which was once complete is now, imperfect.

Where now is the bonding that holds?

Where ever was empathy, there no longer is sense;

The perfect has become repellant.

The delight now sour and the search to relate, commences again.

As the world turns, so too relations evolve;

Are born, live for a time and then die. 

All things must pass and in this world all things must come to an end. 

Until a newness is born.

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3 verse 1

Yet To Be # 72

When Death Invades Life…

What happens next when death invades life. 

How to cope with the passing of a life once loved by those around?

Looking to the left or the right.

Falling on the knees and weeping in pain

Looking through the darkness in uncertainty and yet not seeing a light. 

Taking that one small step forward is agony to the heart

Gather together the fruits and remembrance of that life now gone.

Gone, but never to forget; never to lose self in the past but to press on.

Press on in love knowing that there is comfort among others who understand;

Who experience loss and have won the gift of endurance.

“Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5 v

Yet To Be # 71

I sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears.

What Happens Next When You Are Afraid?

Evening Sky

What happens now? After that which was, is now gone forever.

What should be done when I feel afraid?

How should it be?

Backed into a corner with two sides converging;

With no where else to go, either the left or the right.

Neither up nor down.

But the heart knows as surely as it beats within the breast.

The mind is swift to act but conceives nothing but fear.

And fear brings along with it, torment.

Move into the light;

Seek understanding.

Think of the good, remind the soul of the food we call life. 

Life, the precious fabric of being is fleeting.

Delicate yet strong and at the best of times, resilient.

In all things life cannot be stamped out, but finds a way to shine transcendent.

“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.” 1 John 4 verse 18

“I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.” Psalm 34 verse 4

Yet To Be # 70

Bring praise to the Lord

Where do we go from here?

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you.

Hallelujah, Christ has conquered.

Now, seated at the Father’s right hand. 

Sing Hallelujah.

Bring praise to the Lord. 

Burst out in songs of thanksgiving.

Tribute and admiration belong to him and to him alone.

Give him honour, respect and worship him in the beauty of holiness.

( references: Psalm 96 verse 9, Psalm 150 verse 6, Hebrews 1 verse 3)

Hallelujah – the merging of two words

In the Hebrew Bible – Hillel – is a verb meaning to praise

Jah – the Lord or YHWH or Yahweh.

Yet To Be # 69

He lives to die no more.

The Ascension of Jesus – ascension lesu

Hope rocks some serious acquaintance.

 He is in the glory;

Seated at God’s right hand.

His work completed and hell defeated.

There He lives to die no more.

“go to my brethren, and say unto them I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.” John 20 verse 17

Yet To Be #68

Now therefore our God thank thee and praise they glorious name. He is risen

On the Third Day – He is Risen

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He is risen.

Hail the conqueror of death, hell, Satan and the grave.

Tell all those who look for Him, He is ascended to His Father

Seated at God’s right hand.

There He lives to die no more

Let all who has breath, praise His worthy name, forever.

Thine, O Lord is the greatness, and the power and the glory, and the victory and the majesty; for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.

Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reigns over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great and to give strength unto all. Now therefore, our God we thank thee and praise thy glorious name. 1 Chronicles 29 verse 11 and 12

Yet To Be # 67

For the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Day 3 April- Easter the Second Day

For God so loved the world that He gave His only son.

Love so deep and so vast,

Encompassing all.

Is free.

Pleasing the Father, to bring us back 

And to bridge that gulf between God and man,

He had to die.

Nails in his hands and feet;

The sword that pierced his side;

The crown of thorns;

The mockery, his stripes.

All for us.

His blood was shed.

His body bruised. 

All for us.

Then darkness fell, the earth rocked, the temple rent.

All for us.

Taken from the cross and laid in a tomb.

All for us.

The Lord of life came to die.

“He was taken from prison and from judgement: and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.” Isaiah 53 verse 8

“This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” 1 Timothy 1 verse 15

Yet To Be # 66

Good Friday of the year is a remembrance of the sufferings of the death of Christ

Day 2 of April Good Friday

Good Friday of the year is a remembrance of the sufferings and the death of Christ.

Being named after Him, the one who came to die for the world makes us privilege.

We are Christians being called years ago in Antioch in the country of Turkey, as Christ- like.

Wise as serpents but harmless as doves.

We trace the path of the son of God from the humble manger to His steps in Israel straight to the cross.

The cross where He, as man born of a woman, the virgin Mary, took our sins;

The perfect sacrifice.

The true Passover Lamb.

It is on this day, Good Friday.

“And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.” Acts 11 verse 26

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.”  Matthews 10 verse 16

“Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death.” Matthew 20 verse 18

“Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.” Acts 17 verse 3

Crucifixion of Jesus occurred in 1st century Judea, in either AD 30 or AD 33 – Wikipedia 2021

Yet To Be # 65

Behold, I will do a new thing…

Day 1 of April – A New Start

Spring Blossoms

April means to “open”. 

It is the beginning of the growing season when flowers bloom. 

A fresh start.

A new view of life’s prospects with different eyes.

It isn’t always only about the goal, that prospect;

But how to get to it.

The path taken. 

The journey itself.

All the stops and starts along the way to that reward, can also make a big difference.

The goal is the prize, but the way taken makes the reward even more precious, appreciated and far more sweeter.

So, thread softly and don’t be the fool.

“Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it?” Isaiah 43 verse 19

Yet To Be # 64

who against hope believed in hope

#31 of 31 Faith and Hope United

Riverwood

Faith is “complete trust or confidence in someone or something.”

Hope is “the feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.

United?

Hope does not exist without faith. Faith is the fuel that drives hope onward.

“For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea; (Faith) and shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. (Hope)

Therefore I say unto you, what things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. (Faith and Hope United) Mark 11 verse 23 and 24

“And called those things which be not as though they were.  Who against hope believed in hope.” Romans 4 verse 17b and 18a