Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Of Awe and Love
Thursday, August 7, 2025
To Keep On Keeping On...
To keep on keeping on in bands of faith and hope and love
Will not draw crowds to line the stands with thunderous applause
No trophy waits, or inscribed plaque, in recognition of
Fidelity. Nor stats to track the progress to The Cause
Until we cross the finish line where Time no more will be
When faith and hope their charge resign in love’s eternity
To keep on keeping on is not a luring enterprise
Appealing to bystanders, who have come to see a show
It lacks the rush of pleasure that instantly gratifies
Its distance none can measure to break records here below
No adrenaline rush to fuel bursts of lightning speed
But rather a steadfast pull-push while God supplies each need
To keep on keeping on is a most unembellished quest
It does not earn reason to boast, save in the grace of God
Knowing, in vessels earthen, we are given Heaven’s best
God’s power; nothing human can inspire sweeter laud
His promises beyond compare, faith, hope and love console
Us day by day and prayer by prayer while we press t'ward the goal
© Janet Martin
Friday, August 1, 2025
Endurance Test (or For Faith's Athletes and Soldiers)
Therefore the children of men put their trust
They are abundantly satisfied
And You give them drink
For with You is the fountain of life;
In Your light we see light.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses,
Monday, July 7, 2025
Hope, What a Precious Word
2 Corinthians 5:7
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
Friday, June 20, 2025
May Today Be...
My soul shall be joyful in my God;
For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments,
And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
For as the earth brings forth its bud,
As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth,
So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise
Saturday, June 14, 2025
These Are Dark Days...
Friday, May 30, 2025
Redemption's Groaning Gate Flings Wide...
O Lord, in the acceptable time;
O God, in the multitude of Your mercy,
Hear me in the truth of Your salvation.