For today's prompt, write a pessimistic poem.
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I shared the verse below on yesterday's post HERE
I am sharing it again today because it felt
like a divine reminder when I needed it most!
Psalm 116:13
I will lift up the cup of salvation
and call on the name of the Lord.
(read the whole glorious chapter HERE)
Sometimes I forget...
The cup of salvation and the name of the Lord
supply every need!
Hallelujah and thank-you, dear Savior!
Sometimes I forget, happiness in this world
is not the end goal!
(But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;
and all these things shall be added unto you-Matt.6:33)
(dear readers, not from this community.
I am mourning the loss of a neighbour and friend,
a mother to three children, very dear to my heart
and who still visit on a let's-go-for-a-walk-to-Janet-whim💓
bearing gifts of farm fresh eggs, cheese, fresh cookies, etc.
and always so much love.)
but through Christ, we have Hope's great counterclaim to despair!
Sharing a few recent YouTube uploads to cheer us on
It would be easy to despair
To be crushed beneath weight of care
Where the world at large has gone mad
Testing the quests that make us glad
It would be easy to lose sight
Of faith's position of delight
If we fixate on what we see
Of suffering's great misery
It would be easy to fall prey
To gloom and doom's cheerless dismay
It seems like Satan's bag of tricks
Has left a world no one can fix
It would be easy to believe
The one whose hate aims to deceive
To plant a seed of doubt, to lure
Us from God's promises secure
It would be easy to lose heart
As we watch the world fall apart
Because of the rejection of
God's Cornerstone of Truth and Love
It would be easy to give in
Crushed by consequences of sin
Without salvation's brimming cup
It would be easy to give up
...ah, here we find Hope's Deathless Rose
Salvation's cup still overflows
Redemption's flood still runs between
The part we see and the Unseen
For this is not the Destiny
This is The Joy that Waits To Be
Lift up your eyes, behold the Yet
That we are so prone to forget
Remember, God is good and kind
He opens eyes, otherwise blind
Do not lose heart, do not despair
Time, but the path we pave/brave with prayer
© Janet Martin
2 Pet. 1:3-4
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness
through the knowledge of Him who called us by His owna glory and excellence.
4Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises,
so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature,
now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
Matthew 5:11-12
Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you,
and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.
12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad,
for great is your reward in heaven,
for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Ps.122:1
I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go into the house of the LORD.”
John 15:9-11
As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you.
Remain in My love.
10If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love,
just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
11I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you
and your joy may be complete.
