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DA 3-30 + 12-20 1of 4     Where Do I Begin?

 

I know what peace looks like;

   That just makes me smart;

To receive by inheritance;

   Where do I start?      

 

Where I am now,

   can’t be His Kingdom’s way;

My lordship has let my body decay.

 

My spirit abdicated

   and crowned my soul king;

Like a wife-ruled husband;

   An abominable thing!

 

It reproduces, to our chagrin:

   Women with women and men with men;

And, if not physically gratified;

   There’s another control

that will be satisfied. 

 

But, grace will not interfere with choice’

   Even thou His fruit’s clearly defined;

Unless I’m persuaded, this too will be ‘works’;

   Which I’m doing, most of the time. 

 

If I’m going to leave one place for another;

   before I can start to go,

I must be convinced that You said this, Lord;

   when my soul and my body say, NO!

 

Yet, I’m thinking it’s me

   that gave them that right;

I’d best prepare for some kind of a fight!

 

How do I prepare for a battle like this?

   How do I take control back?

It’s two against one and it can be seen;

   I do, indeed, suffer lack. 

 

These things in all, do clearly show;

   It’s how to change them that I want to know. 

It’s more than evident, with honesty,

   I don’t have what Jesus paid for, for me.

 

I didn’t know that a Kingdom of Grace,

   could keep me in a dangerous place;

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   By design, I don’t think that was His intent.

 

It’s who I allowed to be complacent;

   In my spirit, I really knew,

I was living in less

   than what You had shown

that I should be able to do.

 

My soul so wants to stay in this place

   of swelling words and emotion: 

Like a wife that will turn herself inside out,

   to hold captive her husband’s devotion.

 

It seemed so ‘right’,

   until You rocked the boat;

Now I have to find out

   what You’re talking about. 

 

Looks like an angry sea to me;

   One I don’t think that I can float;

I can’t yet walk on top of the water;

   Should I stay in or get out of the boat? 

 

I can imagine, with that last statement;

   All have an analogy;

But, I’m going to hear what He’s saying to me,

   before I walk any Seas.

 

I’ve calmed a few storms, to keep me alive

   So I can respond to you;

I want to see where I’m going,

   with inheritance flowing;

So I can hear what to do.

 

Now I can see, when I hold up the bread,

   it won’t bless my body...

unless believing You said:

   It’s sanctified and it comes from Me!

But, I just charged my food

   on the Visa, you see.

 

Yet, You said, Test Me now

   and see if I’ll not open,    

to pour out My blessing on you;

   The likes of which, you cannot contain,

is what I would love to do! 

 

Without understanding, this surely won’t be;

   But, I’m listening, Lord, right here at Your knee...

 

I remembered You said, a long time ago,

   in an *utterance that You gave to me,

Come freely in; Go freely out;

   My green pastured inheritance, you’ll see.

  

How do I develop integrity

   in a system that can’t possibly set me free?

 

What is the plan:  Honor among thieves? 

   That isn’t a plan that God has conceived!

 

Oh, just let your light shine and they’ll turn around;

   To what?  To this way that you claim to have found?

 

I think they are thinking, If I’ll end up like you;

   I’ll take my chances and see what I can do;

You tell me all that Jesus said,

   But,  most of the time, it’s just something you’ve read. 

 

Perhaps there is more honor among thieves;

   At lease they’re more honest about unbelief. 

 

The only point I’m trying to make:

   Are we too afraid to examine mistakes? 

Is there an outside possibility,

   that there could be something that I have not yet seen?

 

I don’t think His Truth cannot pass the test;

   I suspect that it’s me; I trust more my rest.

So, if I look into what I just *read;

   and apply it all to me;

Then, I should come out with a clearer view

   of what He wants me to see.

 

I get a picture, when I view myself

   and all others that I observe;

We look like that group from the Civil War;

   missing legs; bandaged heads;              

That’s absurd!

   It’s time to face facts; We’re losing the war;

Now is not the time to ignore;

   But, rather, go on and, at least, to see,

The truth about inherited righteousness to me!

 

                

                 Grace           or       Inheritance                                                 

 

Birthed from:

*The Evidence of Our Belief lesson #14 and *Analogies or Realitie

 March 1st,2005

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