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Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Awesome Anticipation...

Though this poem was inspired by daybreak it applies to every breath and step we take...


As the sun rose I was impacted by the profound realization of
One Day Nearer...

One day nearer to the coming
Of our Lord; and what will be
One day nearer to our going
From time to eternity
One day nearer to beholding
He who saves us by His grace
Each new daybreak is unfolding
One day nearer to His face
And the sacred understanding
Of all that we cannot tell
When the Truth will be unending
In either Heaven or hell

One day nearer to departure
From this world of toil and strife
From the woes of war and hunger
And the cares of love and life
From the hope of our salvation
To faith’s armor laid to rest
From the cross of tribulation
To the crown of righteousness
From this temporary running
To the everlasting Prize
When at last we shed the garment
Of faith’s living sacrifice

One day nearer to the hour
Of reckoning and reward
For man’s days are like a flower
One day nearer to forever
Ere the silver cord is severed
And all but God falls away
One day nearer to the Awesome
Crossing of faith’s Finish Line
…the last petal of the blossom
Caught in nail-scarred hands, divine

© Janet Martin

2 Tim.4:8
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day:
and not to me only,
but unto all them also that love his appearing.

1 Thess.5:1-10
Now about the times and seasons, brothers, we do not need to write to you.
  2For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 
3While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly,
 like labor pains on a pregnant woman, 
and they will not escape.
4But you, brothers, are not in the darkness so that this day should overtake you like a thief.
  5For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; 
we do not belong to the night or to the darkness. 
6So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober. 
7For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
  8But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, 
putting on the breastplate of faith and love,
and the helmet of our hope of salvation.
9For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, 
but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. 
10He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, 
we may live together with Him. 
11Therefore encourage and build one another up, 
just as you are already doing.




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