2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 8
For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge,
poets write a poem a day in the month of November.
Day 8 is to write a more poem...
Ps.139:17-18
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them,
they would be more in number than the sand;
When I awake, I am still with You.
As I puttered about the house, doing Saturday tasks
like muffin-making...
...I listened to the beautiful funeral message for Cecil Shoemaker,
(someone with close ties to many people we know)
who passed in the blink of an eye, from Time into Eternity.
In my own grief-journey I often marvel
at the sweetness of joy to comfort sorrow,
as the death of a loved one who has received
the gift of salvation when they put their faith in Jesus,
transports them to the presence of God.
What joy unspeakable and full of glory 1 Pet.1:8
fills the aching void!
I am so thankful for the Word of God
filled with truths that will never fail!
Every Christian, regardless of denomination
turns to the same Word of God
to be taught and encouraged etc.
Because...
What hope the Word of God secures
In a world plagued with sin
What peace the Word of God assures
To all who trust in Him
What grace the Word of God proclaims
To save the deathless soul
And spare us from eternal flames
As endless ages roll
What joy the Word of God bestows
To all who love his law
What wealth of wisdom overflows
What height and depth of awe
What truth the Word of God makes known
To calm confusion's gale
Truth's Everlasting Cornerstone
Will never shift or fail
What might the Word of God instills
With power from on high
All He has promised He fulfills
His decrees never lie
What help the Word of God supplies
What answer to our prayers
Enough to know He hears our cries
Enough to know He cares
What worth the Word of God unveils
We cannot comprehend
Love and mercy that never fails
Purpose no one can bend
What cheer the Word of God imparts
He comforts us. Amen
Bringing courage to fainting hearts
To strengthen faith again
God's Word is a light to the world
A beacon undeterred
The path of righteousness unfurled
Through the light of His Word
God's word is faithful to correct
Exhort, safeguard and guide
Oh, pray that we do not reject
His Presence to preside
What love the Word of God confirms
Proved through salvation's price
What merciful, relentless terms
Succeeds His sacrifice
What life the Word of God commands
What confidence in death
To rest assured within the Hands
Who hold/made Heaven and earth
What praise the word of God inspires
He paid salvation's cost
Because He utterly desires
That not one soul be lost
What more and more the Word of God
Reveals to all who seek
His holy, just judgment, unflawed
To satisfy the meek
The more we seek the more we find
Humbler, purer delight
As God equips heart, soul and mind
To walk by faith, not sight
Janet Martin
1 Pet.1:22-25
22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth
love one another fervently with a pure heart,
through the word of God which lives and abides [m]forever,
24 because
“All flesh is as grass,
And all [n]the glory of man as the flower of the grass.
The grass withers,
And its flower falls away,
25 But the [o]word of the Lord endures forever.”
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