Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Already Overflowing


But the fruit of the Spirit is 
love, joy, peace, 
forbearance, kindness, goodness, 
faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. 
Against such things there is no law.
Gal.5:22-23

we all prefer being treated with
and surrounded by the fruits of the Spirit
named above,
rather than its opposing counterparts;
hate, misery, worry/war,
impatience, hardness, corruption
disloyalty/dishonesty, violence and rashness

When we view life in light of all the Lord
offers, provides and has provided
our hearts can't help but overflow with humble gratitude
for his everlasting love and faithfulness!

(Sometimes these poems are written to re-remind
my own floundering, susceptible-to-fear faith,
 of God's goodness
so I keep my eyes fixed on a Prize
 beyond all comprehension
and my heart overflowing with worship rather than worry!




Ps.45:1 NKJV
My heart is overflowing with a good theme;
I recite my composition concerning the King;
My tongue is the pen of a [c]ready writer.

Already overflowing, though cares of life persist
We serve a God all-knowing who sees through morrow’s mist
This constant consolation with His redeeming grace
Attends the restoration where dread could take hope’s place
Through Mercy’s kind bestowing, the heart becomes a sea
Of wonder overflowing shores of eternity

He within us is greater; thus, the heart overflows
To know that our Creator, no power overthrows
No army can defeat Him, no threat can thwart His plan
Therefore, we ought to fear Him rather than schemes of man
And cling with grateful knowing to He who loves us so
His goodness overflowing this world of want and woe

Let us reason together; if God is for us then
His mercy is the tether His kindness metes; amen
His riches are exceeding; how sweet the Spirit’s fruit
(Earth’s storehouses are fleeting; corruption taints its loot)
Sin’s debt paid; nothing owing! The heart is rent with hymns
Already overflowing where thankful worship brims

Already overflowing; the glory of His grace
Like heaven’s halo glowing through tears God’s fingers trace
Where we are undergoing the growing pains of trust
While mercy is bestowing breath-by-breath dust-to-dust
Until, with nothing owing the heart becomes the soul
Already overflowing with faith at last made whole

© Janet Martin

2 Cor.5:20
Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, 
as though God were pleading through us: 
we implore you on Christ’s behalf, 
be reconciled to God.






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