Remind Us (Before It Is Too Late)

The law of love is not for the faint of heart, is it?!

It is intrinsically, inevitably attached to a whole bucket-load of care

because love cares!

But we never need to bear its cross of cares alone!

What a tiding of comfort and joy!

Not all love is baby-sweet and child-innocent...

With love comes huge responsibility/accountability...

We have a Heavenly Father who loves us beyond comprehension!

1 John 3:1

Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us,

that we should be called children of God!

So take heart! esp. those in leadership positions;

daddies, mothers, pastors and elders, Sunday School leaders and teachers,

and so many other unseen second-milers💕🙏

Heb.6:10

For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love 

which you have shown toward His name,

 in that you have ministered to the saints, 

and do minister...

Thou God, who dost not fail

To we, prone to forget

Remind us where care’s legions hail

You cradle every ‘yet’

Between Known and Unknown

The present hour peals

Before Thy everlasting throne

The humble seeker kneels

…to find strength for the day

To listen for Thy voice

Where this world offers a buffet

And we reply with choice

Oh, may it never be

As step by step, we go

That we rely on what we see

Rather than what we know

No one exceeds Thy might

Thy love will never fail

To those who in Thy law delight

Perfect peace will prevail

Then, in the thick of love

Lest we forget to heed

Remind us, Thy grace is enough

To satisfy our need

And though life’s weight of care

May seem but to increase

Remind us, tis but to prepare

Our hearts for perfect peace

Where faith and sight compete

Unravel doubt’s dark veil

Remind us of Thy joy complete

Thy love that will not fail

As we trust and obey

(in spite of slight and sneer)

Remind us of the Judgment Day

Drawing so very near

Lest Thy Spirit departs

Averse to vain debate

Lord, open the eyes of our hearts

Before it is too late

© Janet Martin

Eph.1:18

I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, 

so that you may know the hope of His calling, 

the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,...

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.

Therefore You are great, O Lord God. 

For there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, 

according to all that we have heard with our ears.

2 Samuel 7:22

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