Faithfulness's Fitness/Litmus Test (or All For Christ)

Today's song and poem, a very personal challenge!!

Ps.130:1-4

Out of the depths

I cry to You, O LORD!

2O Lord, hear my voice;

let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.

3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities,

then who, O Lord, could stand?

4But with You there is forgiveness,

so that You may be feared.

I Surrender All

 

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Oh, am I ready to be hated as I take a steadfast stand

When sinfulness is celebrated without fear for God’s command

Am I equipped with the Full Armor, (that without, none can endure)

Where an unscrupulous charmer tosses many a lovely lure

Am I prepared to be reviled, rejected, ridiculed, loathed, jeered

When discernment is unbeguiled, because God’s precepts are revered

Am I willing to be accused falsely, yet answer not a word

While I am spit upon, abused, will love suffer long, for my Lord

Am I careful to leave unspoken trendy, empty sentiment

And where my will is still unbroken, am I willing to be bent?

Am I devoted to God's calling for His glory, by His grace

Ready to face the Enthralling Exodus from Fleeting Chase 

Am I committed to take up the cross of Christ with heart and limb

Ready, no matter what the cost, self-sacrificed, to follow Him

Am I hungry for His kind favor rather than the world’s applause

And vigilant of my behaviour in accordance with His laws/cause

Am I longing to be to be like Him, challenged and misunderstood

Knowing, for all who truly love Him, God works out all things for good

Oh, am I ready to portray Him, with faith all but Jesus-blind

To humbly love and obey Him with all heart, soul, strength and mind

© Janet Martin

1 Cor.1:18

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing,

but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Eph.5:1-17

Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.

 2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, 

an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, 

let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 

4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, 

which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. 

5 For [a]this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man,

 who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things

 the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 

7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.

Walk in Light

8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. 

Walk as children of light 

9 (for the fruit of the [b]Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 

10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.

 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,

 but rather [c]expose them. 

12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 

13 But all things that are [d]exposed are made manifest by the light,

 for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says:

“Awake, you who sleep,

Arise from the dead,

And Christ will give you light.”

Walk in Wisdom

15 See then that you walk [e]circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 

16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is...

Let no One Deceive You...Part 1

 

Part 2