Showing posts with label God's Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God's Love. Show all posts

Thursday, February 1, 2024

Of Steadfast Cheer

 

Happy February!
 The month famous for the day that celebrates 
what we hopefully celebrate every day;

Morning By Morning-Pat Barret (feat, Mack Brock)



Then do not worry ‘bout today
God is a ‘help me’ prayer away
In every circumstance of need
He will our helpless heart-cry heed
Should sorrow try our happiness
He does not leave us comfortless
Should fear threaten courage to steal
Should faith fall prey to sight’s appeal
Should temptation’s enticing stance
Lure us from promises God grants
Should idle words and prideful thoughts
Turn stepping stones to stumbling blocks
Should hope be inclined to despair
Beneath love’s pressing weight of care
Should Want be wont to disobey
Turning alas, to our own way
Should trust grow weary in the fight
To cling to what is good and right
Or, as we face the enemy
Forget ‘not I, but Christ in me
Or should confusion author doubt
As to Who life is from, about
Or worship bow to lesser gods
That human natured dust/lust applauds
Should trouble its dark shadow cast
The love of God remains steadfast
In whatever we face today
He is a ‘help me’ prayer away
He is a faithful Friend indeed
A Helper in our time of need
A Father to the fatherless
A God who keeps His promises
Hope’s anchor in the storms of life
Joy’s strength amidst opposing strife
Contentment’s gladness undeterred
In all who delight in His word
Where, though we are the Tempter’s prey
God is a ‘help me’ prayer away
What comfort, kindness, peace to cheer
For God is always 'help me' near  

© Janet Martin

Heb.13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money 
and be content with what you have, 
because God has said,
 “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”

Rom.8:38-39
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, 
nor angels nor principalities nor powers, 
nor things present nor things to come, 
nor height nor depth, 
nor any other created thing, 
shall be able to separate us from the love of God 
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.



Monday, November 13, 2023

What A Friend We Have In Jesus


No matter who or where we are,
 what we shoulder or what we face...
What a Friend We Have in Jesus!


But I will sing of Your strength 
and proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning.
 For You are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.


Psalm 46:1
God is our refuge and strength,
 an ever-present help in times of trouble.



I love you Lord, my Help, the One in whom I put my trust
I love you Lord, my Hope until I shed this garb of dust
I love you Lord, my Joy in grief, my Comforter and Friend
I love Your Word to cheer and keep Faith faithful to the end
I love You for You understand each wordless groan of prayer
I love You, as You walk with me through valleys of despair
I love Your Hand to hold me as life doles its ups and downs
I love You. You console me when anguish my gladness crowns/drowns
I love You, Lord; You are my strength; through You I will endure
I love You, Lord, for I am rich when my spirit is poor
I love You Lord; your grace and mercy pour as I beseech
I love You, for You minister where no one else can reach
I love You Lord; You are my song in the night and the day
I love You. You forgive my sin and wash my guilt away
I love You, Lord; You are my anchor when storms test and toss
I love You; death defeated through the power of the cross
I love You; Lord, You are my peace when fear seeks to prevail
I love You with the love You give; Your love will never fail

© Janet Martin






Tuesday, August 15, 2023

More Than Enough For Me...


(beautiful scripture at the end of the above video)

This morning's poem is inspired in part after visiting my cousin yesterday,
in a long-term care facility. He has been afflicted for many years with MS.
 His family bears a very hard cross!
Please, if you remember, keep them in your prayers...

More info here...
We cannot comprehend God's higher ways but 
plead for an unshakeable knowledge of his perfect love
for all of us!

***

Give me knowledge of Jesus Christ that naught can shake or move
Of He who humbly sacrificed Himself, His love to prove
Fill me with wonder every day, that He who made all things
Surrendered to death’s crude display and cruelest sufferings
To bring salvation once for all to all who call his name
And to redeem us from the Fall that brought Adam to shame

He gave us access to His promises, to satisfy
Hunger and thirst with righteousness only He can supply
Then, may the joy and peace He gives thus transcend everything
With the knowledge that Jesus lives and death has lost its sting
And nothing in this sin-cursed place can ever dearer be
Than the knowledge that by His grace Jesus has ransomed me

Then give me no knowledge but this; He loves me without end
No matter what may be amiss, He is a faithful Friend
On Him I lean, to Him I cry, He, trustworthy and true
Tries my reason with His reply, yet what more can I do
But yield my mortal will to He who paid sin’s penalty
This knowledge of His love will be more than enough for me

© Janet Martin

6Seek the LORD while He may be found;
call on Him while He is near.
7Let the wicked man forsake his own way
and the unrighteous man his own thoughts;
let him return to the LORD,
that He may have compassion,
and to our God,
for He will freely pardon.
8“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways My ways,”
declares the LORD.
9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so My ways are higher than your ways
and My thoughts than your thoughts...




Saturday, August 5, 2023

Earnest Entreaty...


Today's poem inspired in part by the messages below,
Esp. this line; nothing is worse than men who think that they see
when they are in reality, blind.
and when, in their delusion they make bold, to act as leaders
and guides for others.




 Pictures That Tell a Story (Part 2 of 2) - 08/04/23



We love You, Lord, Because You first loved us, then pray that we
Live to be like vessels out-poured in glad humility
Not wise in our own eyes, with truth, imagination-blurred
But a people that dearly prize the statutes of your Word

Oh, may the love that we confess be more than verbal spew
Convicted by Your holiness to live holy lives too
And as we meditate upon our Saviour we adore
May Want be narrowed down to One/one; to love You more and more

Lest false teachers tease truth with lies that lull heart’s eyes to sleep
Until we do not recognize the wolves among the sheep
Lest deceived, believing we see, are like blind leading blind
Lord, help us seek You earnestly, with heart and soul and mind

Lest love becomes a clanging gong, sanctify, by Thy Word
True love, to enkindle a song of worship, undeterred
A hymn, so very precious, because we are subjects of

© Janet Martin

John 17:17
Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.


Sunday, July 16, 2023

Endless Good aka Everlasting Love

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying:
 “I have loved you with an everlasting love; 
I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.
Jer.31:3

Everlasting; adj. 
infinite, never-ending, eternal, immortal, abiding, perpetual, timeless, unending, enduring

How heartbreaking to  never move beyond the point of seeing God
simply as a kill-joy and rule giver, though we all want and need love
How pitiful/terrible is the belief in the existence of Him
without the joy of the love from and for Him!!


(I've shared this song many times because I love it so much)



From He who does not shift or change His everlasting love
Receive the endless good in which unbelief has no part

…and pray the Lord, for love’s increase, the greatest gift He grants
Is like a glorious masterpiece in every circumstance
To anchor faith and hope, so doubt does not cause us to be

Oh, what a precious family is the family of God
Whose trust is not in what we see but in His faithful word
His promises more dear than anything this world can boast
Like a wellspring of endless good unto the uttermost

For every good and perfect gift comes down from up above
And nothing can deplete the measure of love’s treasure trove
Where, as the love of God becomes alive in you and I
His joy is like a fountain that no sorrow can run dry

…no matter what befalls, love bears us up to bear all things
Christ in us makes love able to suffer all that life brings
Then, though we do not know what waits, Love none can comprehend
Through He who WAS, IS and WILL BE is faithful without end





Friday, May 12, 2023

We Cannot Make Love

Today I am making garden-planting plans!


Other things made this week?
Order from chaos!


Birthday cake and dinner memories...


...and of course, coffee!!😊


We are always making, aren't we?!!
Making plans, meals, order, things, memories, 
coffee...

But, we cannot make love...
And say, 'see, here it is', to set in front of someone
like a trophy to display upon a shelf
We cannot make it like a Thing and say,
'This is a Love'
So, where does love come from;
This 'Thing' everyone needs and can
never get too much of...?
Where is this Fount 
from whence all Goodness flows?
This 'Thing' that never fails,
Only the lack of it...


We cannot make love
Can’t bake it like a cake
Can’t steep it like a cup of tea
To soothe a bellyache

Can’t mold it out of clay
Can't forge it out of steel
To build a bridge to span the gap
Twixt heart-to-heart appeal

Can't cut it from a page
Or order it online
Can't woo it from whispering leaves
Or pluck it from a vine

Or buy it from a shop
Or shake it from a bough
Like red apples in autumn-time
Can't milk it from a cow

Or hatch it from an egg
Or catch it like a fish
Or carve it out of balsam wood
Or mix it in a dish

Or pull it from a box
Or paint it, like fine art
Or compose it with pen and ink
To lure/coax it from a heart

Can't wish it from a star
Or press it from a grape
Or force it from bud into bloom 
Can't knit it like a cape

Or weave it like a mat
Can't earn it by hard toil
Or pour and smooth it like concrete 
Or dig it from the soil

Ah, where can we find love?
High on a dusty shelf?
Or, do we start to find it when
We stop living for Self

Love is life's greatest joy
Love is life's greatest grief
Love is the evidence of God
That triumphs unbelief 

No, we cannot make love
The way we make a pie
Love is the heart/part of God in us
That only fools deny

Nobody has seen God
Only His majesty
Made manifest among us through
The likes of you and me 

Love; oft misunderstood
Love, ink of poet's laud 
The Great Equalizer of boast
Because love is from God

Janet Martin

1 John 4:7-12
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, 
and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 
8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 
9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, 
that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 
10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us 
and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 
12 No one has ever seen God; 
if we love one another, 
God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

A Love-ly Light



Matt.5:16
Let your light so shine before men,
 that they may see your good works, 
and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Don't you love
the light of love
in loved one's eyes?
Esp. children!!
don't you love the way they shine
with love without disguise?
and don't you hope and pray that we,
God's precious girl and boy
look at our Daddy lovingly
then shine and shine with joy?!!




Love does not scorn its charge
Nor loathe its perfect law
But lets the grace of God enlarge
Faith’s diligence with awe

Love, the Light of the world
Has pierced sin’s darkness through
It is God’s evidence unfurled
To shine in me and you

…to glorify the Name
Of He who came to save
And live God’s goodness to proclaim
For the gift His love gave

It is impossible
To confess ‘Christ in me’
Without love’s candle visible
For all the world to see

Then pray the Lord to keep
Our love from growing dim
Lest unawares, we fall asleep
And cease to shine for Him

Lord, let our light so shine
So that all men may see
The evidence of love divine
Bringing glory to Thee

Oh, what a lovely Light
The love of God instills
Where until faith is turned to sight
His glory spills and spills
 
© Janet Martin

This is one of the songs the choir hoped to sing at our church on Christmas Eve.
Though we were disappointed to cancel the service
NOTHING can cancel the true believer's joy and or the Light of the World!
Sing Hallelujah!!





Wednesday, December 14, 2022

A Prayer-Poem of Hope and Praise



The magnitude of this morning's sunrise 
was impossible to capture in the lens of a camera...

A little like God's goodness and love 
are impossible to capture in
the lines of a poem!

Dear Heavenly Father,
A prayer-poem of hope and praise!

From strength to strength in You
Sweet consolation this
Whatever valley we pass through
Whatever grief afflicts
Whatever tries joy’s cup
Whatever storm we face
From strength to strength, You bear us up
By your sufficient grace
Where nothing in this world
Transcends Your love so true
Like a majestic Light unfurled
To guide us home to You

© Janet Martin

Psalm 84:5-7
Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
    whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
As they pass through the Valley of Baka,
    they make it a place of springs;
    the autumn rains also cover it with pools.[d]
They go from strength to strength,
    till each appears before God in Zion.

Saturday, November 19, 2022

Unplumbed Knowledge (Too Wonderful For Me)


Inspired by Psalm 139
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
 Psalm 139:6

O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. v.1

Search me, O God, and know my heart: 
try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me 
and lead me in the way everlasting. v.23-24



There is no fooling You
Lord, you know all our ways
While we were knitted in the womb
You beheld all our days
While we were being wrought
You knew us every one
Before a thought became a thought
Before a deed was done
Your knowledge hemmed us in
Behind, beside, before
Beneath the shadow of your Wing
You keep us evermore

Lord, we are fearfully
And wonderfully made
You know the place intimately
Where thought and choice are weighed
You search and know each heart
Nothing is hid from you
For you fashioned our inmost part
Before one breath we drew
Then, search where you have searched
Lest wicked ways remain
Lest craftiness of pride is perched
Where worship is made vain

Lord, lead us in the way
Of everlasting life
Shield us from the cunning buffet
Of vanity’s vain strife
But purify our hearts
To praise you more and more
Your goodness and mercy imparts
All we are thirsting for
Your thoughts; what preciousness
To think that they should be
Of us, oh, Lord, such knowledge is
Too wonderful for me

© Janet Martin








Thursday, November 3, 2022

Three Word Wonderment


Lest we get consumed by doom and gloom headlines...
by dread and doubt,
A reminder of everlasting truth inspiring utter thankfulness

 The Ray that rends night's sky...


This is no vain cliché
Of insignificance
This washes our sins away
With sacred sufferance
This is ‘Never Alone’
The anchor for the soul
Goodness and mercy’s cornerstone
For faith to be made whole

This is no common phrase
To hear then disregard
This is the strength for our days
Through Hands, faithful and scarred
This is God's kiss unfurled
Salvation’s origin
This is life to a dying world
To break the curse of sin

This is no utterance
Of meritless acclaim
This is creation’s countenance
The power in God’s name
Beauty that never dies
Wonder that cannot cease
The covenant that satisfies
The crux of perfect peace

The shelter of a Wing
While wild, time’s tempests toss
The comfort in our suffering
The glory of the cross
The bedrock of belief
Courage to face the foe
The solace in our pain and grief
The grace whereby we go

The sweetness in our song
The dawning of delight
The happiness when things go wrong
The armor for the fight
That which does not forsake
To cheer us on and up
The worth in every breath we take
The sparkle in life’s cup

The Ray that rends night's sky
The Voice that calms our dread
The Law no law can nullify
The scapegoat in our stead
This is our joy complete 
No void of want contends
This is Enough for all we meet
Nothing this Truth transcends

This is no trite maxim
No hollow platitude
This is a Light that cannot dim
The heart of gratitude
A boundless sympathy
Beneath, around, above
The hope of all humanity
In three words ‘God is love’

© Janet Martin

Because God is love
1 John 4:8  







Friday, October 21, 2022

Because of God Who Loves Us Faithfully

 With glory, pouring out the morning sky...



Isaiah 30:18
Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you;
 therefore He rises to show you compassion, 
for the LORD is a just God. 
Blessed are all who wait for Him.

After a stretch of no sunrises,
the glorious colours of today's dawn 
were welcomed and beheld with eager joy!


Because of God who loves us faithfully
And hems us in with Hands no foe can wend
With Knowledge far too wonderful for me
With mercy, more than thought can comprehend
With glory pouring out the morning sky
With goodness spread like a lavish buffet
Before the sorry likes of you and I
With steadfast joy no sorrow can dismay
With grace, the only grace that breaks death’s curse
With hope that anchors the immortal soul
With awe that He who tends the universe
Indwells us with the faith that makes us whole
Compelling us to love’s devout reply
With deeds that bear faith’s witness undeterred
With self-surrender’s humble ‘here am I’
With earnest heed to all that we have heard
Without reserve, to let our longing be
Fulfilled by what the cross of Christ has won
Because of God who loves us faithfully
And in our sorry stead, offered His Son
To be the sacrifice for our sins
To pay its debt no mortal could defeat
To prove hate, death and darkness never wins
To rise again, salvation’s work complete
…and nothing can annul what He has done
While generations rise and fall like waves
The Mighty Cornerstone of Christendom
Abides, astride earth’s girth stippled with graves
That harbor dust and ash of toil and strife
But not the Soul, returned with tender care
To He whose love will search the Book of Life
To see if the soul’s name is written there

...Because of God who loves us faithfully
Because of the cruel cost/cross His dear Son braved
We need not dread Death’s dismal certainty

© Janet Martin

And in that day it will be said, "Surely this is our God; 
we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. 
This is the LORD for whom we have waited. 
Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation."


2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness,
 but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish
 but everyone to come to repentance.

John 3:14-19
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 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.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.




Sunday, September 18, 2022

The Masterpiece of Grace



I began writing this poem early this morning without any idea what today's message would be!
But the passage for the inspiration of this poem was part of this morning's message at WBC!

1 John 4: 11-12
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 
12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, 
God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

I have been reading a lot in Ephesians and 1,2&3rd John recently!
So, the 'message' in the message reiterated a lot of what has been on my heart!
Thank-you God (and Gary)



Oh! Pray that most stunningly profound moment takes place
when we are utterly awed by God's unfathomable grace
that His love bestows on all who call on Him,
in repentance and belief,
and then, our only possible reply can be




Love leaps with joy’s sweet poses and in sorrow weeps and mourns
It awes us with its roses, and it pricks us with its thorns
It uplifts hearts with gladness, and it weighs hearts down with care
The utmost happy sadness that mortal will ever bear

It soothes and stuns; it sears and cheers and wounds and heals, oh my
It binds and frees and finds its knees beneath its weighted sigh
It satisfies our deepest need but cannot succour Self
It is an enemy of greed and miser’s hoarded pelf

Daily it dies unnumbered deaths yet is life to the full
Of priceless worth and yet to keep it is impossible
For until it is given, none its merit can applaud
A mirror made in Heaven to reflect the proof/love of God

Love suffers long and it is kind no matter what the price
The crown jewel of blessing lined with constant sacrifice
The tally of its treasure reckoned in regions above
On ledgers beyond measure because who can fathom love?

Love yields, yet clings to what is right, often misunderstood
Love is a peacemaker that fights with all its might for good
Love lends a helping hand and walks a second mile or ten
Because love, the greatest command is God in us, amen

No flesh can force, form or plan love from matter, tangible 
The divine mesh of God in man is unfathomable
Where without love/God no one can set the building blocks in place
On The Cornerstone that begets The Masterpiece of Grace 

© Janet Martin



Thursday, August 25, 2022

From This Time Forth, Forevermore

The Psalm I keep on our refrigerator door
was this mornings Bible Reading in Our Daily Bread Devotion.
Though I have read this Psalm many times this morning
the last line confounded my comprehension!




From this time forth, forevermore
What joy and peace to know
Our loving God behind, before
Above us and below
Greater is He within us than
He that is in the world
No evil can frustrate the span
Of hope’s banner unfurled
Above, beneath and all around
Goodness and mercy pour
Where nothing can God’s plan confound
Both now and evermore

From this time forth forevermore
Compassion without end
A kind Advocate to restore
What sin alone would rend
But God’s atoning sacrifice
His pardon once for all
By faith’s confession will suffice
To save us from The Fall
And by His all-sufficient grace
Where doubt’s dark demons roar
Naught can love’s finished work erase
Both now and evermore

From this time forth forevermore
Oh Lord, renew our minds
Through humble eyes of faith restore
Our sight, where this world blinds
Where unbelieving scads applaud
Sin’s godless diocese
Yet none can thwart the love of God
Who grants faith perfect peace
Whose will it is that none die, lost
Spurning the cross He bore
To pay sin’s overwhelming cost
Both now and evermore

From this time forth forevermore
Thought cannot comprehend
The vastness of love’s reservoir
Abounding without end
Who sits enthroned above the earth
And stretches out the sky
Like grasshoppers filled with His worth
We wait on his reply
As the perfected love of God
Commands us to obey
His Truth established on a Rock
That does not shift or sway

From this time forth forevermore
Oh pray, in Him we trust
Earth’s nations like a droplet's score
Or like a speck of dust
But our God is not like these
He holds earth’s basket-land
He cups the waters of the seas
In hollows of His Hand
He tends His flock with staff and rod
Of comfort; come, adore
Him, our everlasting God
Both now and evermore

© Janet Martin

1 John 2:1-6 (BSB)
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin.
 But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—
Christ, the Righteous One. Himself is the atoning sacrificea for our sins, 
and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
3By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
4If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments,
he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 
5But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. 
By this we know that we are in Him:
6Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.

Who is our God?!!

Friday, August 5, 2022

Love, or the Lack Thereof...




Clash of wills when expectations don’t see eye to eye
Word that kills, when untamed tongue wounds with spite’s quick reply
Cup that overflows with sorrow when love is not kind
When love does not ‘suffer long’, with Other first in mind

Hunger is a heart-shaped hollow; want unsatisfied
When we cannot seem to swallow self-important pride
When we find no creature comfort in love’s common test
…of so much to learn about love’s good, better and best

Gentle joy and sweet contentment are love’s fruits, my dear
When forgiveness, not resentment keeps the conscience clear
When the welfare of another sets thought’s tender tone
Aware we leave either stumbling block or stepping stone

To love as we ought to, is impossible to do
Without the example of Love’s Author, kind and true
He is slow to anger, rich in mercy, gracious, good
What a way to live; to love each other as we should

God, who gave the Best He had because He loves us so
Does not leave as helpless, hopeless; by His grace we go
As His love pours through us it transforms wrong attitude
Until all that remains is love's law of gratitude 

© Janet Martin




Psalm 145:8-9
The LORD is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.
9The LORD is good to all;
His compassion rests on all He has made.

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Love; The Journey


So much for love to hope for, pray for, and celebrate!
Love is not a feeling, 
but a fulltime labor of compassion, courage, correction and grace!
Love is ever learning and never lazy.
Love is God poured out, in/ through us!
His  loving grace is sufficient for the charge!

1 John 4:7-12
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, 
and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 
8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 
9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, 
that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 
10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us 
and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 
12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, 
God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

1 Cor.13:7-8
Love...bears all things, 
believes all things, 
hopes all things, 
endures all things.
Love never fails.


I believe in loving the journey 
but an apt twist to this quote would be
Love is the Journey


Love hurts with those who hurt
And laughs with those who laugh
Its noble motive seeks the worth
Of fellowman’s behalf

It hopes and prays and cares
And does not weigh the price
But with a heart of mercy bears
The yoke of sacrifice

Love does not seek its own
Agendas; love is kind
It sets a stable stepping stone
For those foll’wing behind

It heeds earnest rebuke
Love does not boast or lie
Unprejudiced, humble and true
Love measures thought’s reply

Love mourns with those who mourn
And sings with those who sing
Love shares the rose and bears the thorn
Without self-pitying

Love lights joy’s candlestick
Love never, never fails
When grief’s sickle cuts to the quick
God, who IS love prevails

Incarnate and Enough
The Vine sustains the branch
Apart from God, love is not love
But hell's hopeless romance

Love transcends circumstance
Mercy's unthwarted grail
Outpours, in constant sustenance
The love that cannot fail

So, Love the journey Here
With humble, holy laud
Because love is the journey, dear
Back to love's birthplace; 
God

© Janet Martin

John 15:5
“I am the vine; you are the branches. 
If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; 
apart from me you can do nothing.

1 Cor.13:13
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. 
But the greatest of these is love.