Category: Poems About God’s Love
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An Outstretched Hand Poem About God’s Grace
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An Outstretched HandGrace waits patiently for everyonelike Charon beside the River Styx.But Grace requires no coinagefor sin’s payment has been nixed.The sound of a boulder’s rumble,louder to the soul than deafening thunder,is the receipt for the cost of transgression, paid in full.It leaves even angels still in wonderat the depth of love that bears such…
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Conversion Poem About the Love and Grace of God
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Conversion A Poem About the Love and Grace of God I began divided. Quite selfish with a heart hungry for evil yet filled with a deep longing brewing below the surface that never seemed fulfilled by anything other than you. So what was I to do – in love with myself and my selfish desires…
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Ashes Devotional Poem For Lent Ash Wednesday
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Ashes The fire blazed and in the flames I gazed upon the fuel – the false self feeding this renewal. It is awareness that strikes the match and dispatches the light roaring into the darkness. Though this heat is intense, it only speaks of how immense your glory and goodness truly are. I fed myself…
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Origins Poem About Love Life Meaning
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Origins What comes first, the invitation or the knock at the door? The yearning for your love or the whispering at our core? Justin Farley
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Holy Justice – Poem About the Death Penalty and Prison
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Holy Justice I heard his sobs as they walked him down the row, heard the shackles jingle, the whispers of people waiting for the show. I watched in horror as they strapped him to the chair… the pleading and screaming still repeats in my head like a nightmare. I retched at the smell of burning…
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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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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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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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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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Upon This Rock – A Christian Poem of Grace
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Upon This Rock – A Christian Poem of Grace Upon this rock I walk Uncertain, yet composed. Not crushed beneath the veil of darkness, For with me always is a light that glows. The demons of my weakness harass me. Past failures breed doubts to future plans. But upon this rock I’m free, Caressed and…
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Hide and Seek – Godly Love of God Poem
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Hide and Seek – Godly Love of God Poem One, one-thousand. Two, one-thousand. Three, one-thousand… Ten, one-thousand. Ready or not, here I come. Just where could you be hiding? Your favorite spots could be endless Across an ever-expanding universe. Are you resting within a crater on the moon? Riding around the rings of Saturn Like…
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What the Heart Heard – A Poem
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What is this sound come beating in my heart, that rattles my walls and shakes me apart? It roars with the echo of a thousand lions, always on the prowl. Stealthily seeking to devour me when its advances I finally allow. It is a soft, cool whisper like the wind howling through the trees, anxiously…
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Wandering – A Christian Poem About Guilt
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Your commandments loom over me, Blinding my eyes like a bright light in the midst of darkness. It hurts my eyes and causes me to turn away From the angelic presence of your glory. Isn’t this the essence of the human story, Locked in a constant battle with our foolish hearts Year after year choosing…
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The Tinman – A Poem
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The Tinman – A Poem Your beacon blazes with the firestormOf a thousand pyres.In your eyes I find the fires –Smoke signals that rise to the heavensAnd lead me on a journeyOut of the confinement of earthly shacklesThat have clanged like lonely church bellsRinging in the early morning,Beckoning for deliverance around my feet for countless…
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The Problem of Man – A Christian Poem
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The Problem of Man – A Christian Poem You whisper to me in shades of sadness, Silently stammering like a broken record Skipping over the same ol’ speech. What do I do with this madness – This sinful desire that corrupts my heart with each new beat? I welcome you with open arms The moment…
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Umbrella – A Poem
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Umbrella – A Poem The world’s troubles pour all around me, But I am perfectly safe and dry Shielded underneath the armor of your umbrella – Rain sliding down its sides like shingles Nailed upon an angled roof. Droplets of pain drip down From the edges of your cover, But I am without a tear…
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My Conceited Heart – A Christian Poem About Turning Away From God
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Is it your will that we should become strangersThe moment I become a stranger to pain?The wind howls your lonely lullabyAs I drift on forgetting your name. Your deliverance is a selfless actWrapped up and gifted as incomparable love -Your omniscient knowledge knowing we will turn awayThe second you stop the tears of our flood.…
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Entangled in Your Love – A Poem About Intimacy With God
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Entangled in Your Love – A Poem About Intimacy With God You are the cool, autumn breeze,The great mystical force that brings me to my knees,Stupefied in awestruck wonder.I miss you when you’re not near,When your shadow no longer covers meAnd hides me beneath your wings.But I seek. But I search.And you reveal new thingsTo…
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