Unless We Seek...

How can we gain great confidence

In seasons of distress

Or find hope and deliverance

Without God’s promises

How can we know God’s promises

If we, worry-inclined

Still try to fill heart-emptiness

Through channels of the mind

How can man’s ignorance maintain

The things we ought to think

How can Living Water sustain

If we don’t stop to drink

How can we think on purer things

If we have never sought

The richer and the surer things

That the Great Teacher taught

How can a ship without a sail

Be steered from rock and reef

How can a man survive the gale

Without anchored belief

How can belief be absolute

It never can unless

The seed of faith has taken root

Within God’s promises

How can the seed of faith take root

And yield sweet recompense

Only when repentance bears fruit

In meek obedience

How can obedience begin

A life of happiness

When we find kind assurance in

God’s faithful promises

How can we find His promises

To empower the weak

Alas, we never can unless

Unless we truly seek

© Janet Martin

Seek and ye shall find...
Matt.7:7

 

2 Peter 1:2-10 KJV

 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

³ According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

⁴ Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

⁵ And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

⁶ And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

⁷ And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

⁸ For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

¹⁰ Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: