Prime Example

PAD Challenge day 11:For today’s prompt, write a prime poem.

Our Prime Example grants pure, perfect purpose to

all we do...for Him!

Lest love leaves us looking for a little more than life can give

We should use its Prime Example to learn how we ought to live

He, for our benefit, looked far beyond the present price

Bringing many sons to glory through love’s precious sacrifice

He with a Father’s compassion primes dawn’s blush on eastern brim

Where He longs with time's extension to draw all of us to Him

How He cares for we who He formed in His image, soul instilled

Letting us through His son Jesus gain the joy His grief fulfilled

Lest we, caught up in the moment overlook The Greater Plan

(So much more to love’s big picture than these little days of man)

We should strive with awed endeavor to mirror God’s sympathy

(He who did not spare His Best for the sake of humanity)

We are all brothers and sister, born to love and not to slay

None of us is least or greater (no matter what people say)

All unworthy benefactors of love’s holy agony

And His precious Prime Example; only love can set us free

Then, lest love should leave us looking for less than Mercy’s intent

We should imitate the passion that left the temple’s veil rent

Allowing by faith, free access to approach God’s throne with awe

Granting hope far better than the letter of a works-based law

God is love; from, through and for Him we lack nothing if we trust

For he knows how we are formed and he remembers we are dust

As a father has compassion for His Children, so the Lord

Does not give what we deserve but reserves Heaven as reward

© Janet Martin

If Your Son Was A Chip Off The Old Block

If your son was a chip off the old block

And followed the footsteps you laid

Would we know, would it show that he loved God

By laws he revered and obeyed

Would we see him reach for his Bible?

To look to his Father above

For life’s daily guidance and counsel

Would we see God’s light in his love

If your son was a chip off the old block

Inheriting more than your name

Would it make you humbly thankful?

Or sorrowfully fill you with shame

Would he be a man among men, sir?

Or ever remain just a boy

Would he, in his speech and his manner

Fulfill a father’s pride and joy

Would he be master of his vices

As he mirrors more than your face

Would he, by his words and his choices

Make this world a better place?

And, if as time passed, folk would mention

How much he is just like his dad

If your son was a chip off the old block

Would this make you happy or sad?

© Janet Martin

 
Proverbs 13:24
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

Proverbs 23:24
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

Prov.10:1
A wise son maketh a glad father:

Bedrock of Wealth

Oh, would that we from here to there

Not by the wealth of coin defined

But by our love for God and man

Leave a rich heritage behind

Oh, may the treasure that we store

Not be of dust and rust-prone hoard

But earnestly and carefully

A daily seeking of our Lord

And may those stepping-stones we lay

For those who follow where we trod

Be rooted and unshakeable

Grounded within the Word of God

...and if they say Mother or Dad

May it bring a great gladness then

As they grow up, to know we had

Love and respect for fellowmen

Oh, would that we from here to there

Be mindful of our children’s sake

And live each day within a prayer

Then leave its fortune in our wake

© Janet Martin