Another Day That We Can Use...(a poem inspired by a journal entry from mom)

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, 

and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. 

Are you not of more value than they?

Matt.6:26

‘Another day that we can use to let our light shine as a beacon to others.
May the Lord forgive us when we fail in this.’
This was the opening line in an entry of a trip-journal 

my mother wrote this spring as they traveled on a bus tour 

from Ontario to Arizona and many points of interest along the way,
but was suddenly cut short due to the coronavirus.
Her words inspired this morning's poem...


We have nothing to boast about without the Lord; He grants the means
Through what He lends by His mercy, to shine our little lamps for Him
Then as we recognize this fact it relieves us of futile stress
And reminds us with joy and peace of the Giver’s trustworthiness

How oft we fret and fuss, forgetting who we owe our efforts to
God who is ‘our refuge and strength’ has promised He will see us through
Then when the way we planned is thwarted by A Hand over our own
Our boast is still secure and pure because He is not overthrown

Then in the midnight of our lives when imprisoned with suffering
Still we like Paul and Silas did can rejoice as we pray and sing
Then, as others witness the hope as hallelujah-anthems brim
May others see God’s Light in us and draw the seeking heart to Him

© Janet Martin 

 

 Jeremiah 9:23-24
This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom,
nor the strong man in his strength,
nor the wealthy man in his riches.
But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me,
that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion,
justice and righteousness on the earth--for I delight in these things," declares the LORD.