Category: God Poems
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Poem About Intimacy with God
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Intimacy With GodSpeaking in the silence,waiting in the midst of contemplation,listening on the other line of prayerawaits the answerto the relentless yearning of the human heart.Do not come seeking secret knowledge.Do not expect divine visions,to become enlightened,or to transcend physical reality.But come to the silencesimply to listen,desiring and longing forintimacy with the Divine,experiencing God’s love…
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Poem about Wrestling with God and Accepting God’s Will
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Tug O’ War Engaged in a constant game of tug o’ war between your will and mine. Sweating out the hours. Eking out the days, muscles bulging in desperate exhaustion, clinging to dust. Why do I wrestle with you? Why does my foolish heart still insist it knows better despite a lifelong record of defeat?…
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Poem About Peace, Love, and Faith
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You Will Find You will find peace when nothing but this moment matters… when you forgive yourself and others for the past and stop obsessing over the worries of tomorrow. You will find contentment when you seek communion with the divine… when the eternal fire of truth burns brighter than wealth, social status, or material…
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Poem About the Grace and Mercy of God
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The Questions of Life Are we free or predetermined? At the helm of the open seas or merely indentured servants? Why the trials, why the burdens if life is as it’s meant to be, if the future is certain? But as for me, I’m determined to believe that freewill is your loving flame for us…
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Trusting in God Instead of Your Understanding Poem
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Be My Vision Be the eyes through which I see – so that I may not gaze into the past with regret or worry about what’s before me. In past, present, and future let me only see you and your will. May I not be obsessed with the weather in my life – so…
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Nature Poem About Walking in the Woods
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Walking through the Forest – A Poem About Nature and Spirituality To walk through the forestand see sunlight shinning through the treesis like a cool, refreshing breezeto the spirit sweltering beneaththe heat of worldly troubles. To walk through the forestand observe nature’s mysterious orderis like a wall erected in the path of disorder,calming the…
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Poem about Sin and God’s Grace by Justin Farley
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Mistakes and Promises by Justin Farley My mistakes are unlimited, my promises are sometimes half-hearted and indifferent, and my character can get thrown wherever desire moves me, swayed like willow branches in the wind. But when the waves of my sin pass, guilt juts through my soul like shards of glass, and I’m left to…
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God Will Provide Poem
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“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; When you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.” -Isaiah 43:2-3 God Will…
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Religious Christmas Poem About Jesus Birth
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A Christian Christmas Poem About the Birth of Christ “ILLUMINATION” Seeds of fire grow with smoky breath. Tongues of flame lick the darkness and eat away the barriers to sight. Slowly shadows melt off of objects once obscured beneath black blankets of night. As the heat rises, images of revelation meet the eyes. Secrets are…
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Christian Poem About Having An Inflated Ego and Being Selfish
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A Christian Poem About the Dangers of Being Selfish and Prideful “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” – Proverbs 16:18 (KJV) “Me, My, Mine” Ignorance is expressed as “me, my, mine”, ignoring in every facet of life the presence of the Divine. Covering your eyes doesn’t make the sun not…
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A Christian Poem About God’s Love, Grace, and Renewal
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An inspirational poem that examines the love, grace, and mercy of God through Jesus Christ.
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Poem About Recovery From Addiction – The Streets of Delusion
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The Streets of Delusion – A Poem About Addiction Recovery I walked the streets of delusion where the streetlights glow with golden spheres of flame. Dancing like fireflies in a glass jar, their seductive splendor tempted me, whispering my ego’s name. I walked the streets of delusion believing them to be paved with adventure and romantic…
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Opus Dei – A Poem About the Work of God In Your Life
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Opus Dei – A Poem About the Work of God In Your Life Your hot breath has blown on me and provided the oxygen for glowing embers of love where there was once nothing but cold, hard coals. You’ve cultivated my soul and provided the rich, black soil for roots of patience where there was…
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Grace – A Poem
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Grace – A Poem I am awed by the way you move me like freshly fallen snowflakes dusting across the frozen ground. Some days I forget the barren tundra from which I came and how you whispered by name, echoing across that vacant landscape so that a lost soul could be found. Some days time…
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Like Me – A Poem About Loving Yourself
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But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and…
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The Black Veil – A Poem
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The Black Veil – A Poem I wear this black veil of despair Like the wrappings of a mummy, Covering my self-inflicted wounds. My face frozen in cold, blank stare Trapped within my tomb, Alone in my room. Why do you continue to test me? Why do you hold out savory meat Only to snatch…
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The Mirror of Truth – A Poem
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The Mirror of Truth – A Poem Into the mirror I gaze and am wrapped within the frame of a smoky haze of secrets swirling within glass. I can’t deny the face, can’t pretend I don’t know, have no trace of realization that the figure before my eyes is me. It’s unsettling to see the…
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