Called, Chosen, and Faithful
I recently started a new Christian blog to help spread the Good News of Salvation. Almost two months in I am now up to my seventeenth post. Originally my blog was started to help with my own search for a congregation of like minded Christians. It has evolved to a place where I can exhibit my poetry and insights. Hopefully inspiring others to become Christian or to live more righteously. Below is my seventeenth post entitled:
Called, Chosen, and Faithful
I called on his name, repented and wept
Waiting only upon his redeemed to reclaim
And a gift, a new and a sanctified name.
Baptized by immersion in the water of life
Called, Chosen, and yet...
What remains?
But trying to remain faithful
through everyday strife.
To walk always in his statutes, commandments,
and ways.
Minutes and hours,
Mine too slow and too empty,
as day turns to days
I know the straight and the narrow
is the path less traveled by, the absolute way.
It cuts to the quick to the marrow.
Depart not from the law
to the right nor the left
My Desire. My Hope.
To be by his writ
Called, Chosen, and Faithful!
For if my feet remain clean,
Then am I clean every wit.
Jesus not only cleaned the feet of his disciples as an act of humbleness and service, but to teach an important lesson to all generations. A lesson that many of us already know, but forget to apply in our everyday lives. Our feet carry us places. They can carry us into trouble and into sin, but more importantly they can carry us away from it. Thus if you have already repented and been baptized in Christ's name only one thing remains. You have been called, you have been chosen, but have you been faithful?
Hebrews 10:26-27 tells us, For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Confession is available to us as seen in 1 John 1:9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Yet when we confess our sins we are to learn from our error. Confession is repentance unto the changing of ways. It is not intended to be abused or treated as a light matter which is easily healed by penance. When we learn from our mistakes we should remember not only to watch out for each other, but also where we let our own steps carry us.
... Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Matthew 3:3
Called, Chosen, and Faithful
I called on his name, repented and wept
Waiting only upon his redeemed to reclaim
And a gift, a new and a sanctified name.
Baptized by immersion in the water of life
Called, Chosen, and yet...
What remains?
But trying to remain faithful
through everyday strife.
To walk always in his statutes, commandments,
and ways.
Minutes and hours,
Mine too slow and too empty,
as day turns to days
I know the straight and the narrow
is the path less traveled by, the absolute way.
It cuts to the quick to the marrow.
Depart not from the law
to the right nor the left
My Desire. My Hope.
To be by his writ
Called, Chosen, and Faithful!
For if my feet remain clean,
Then am I clean every wit.
Jesus not only cleaned the feet of his disciples as an act of humbleness and service, but to teach an important lesson to all generations. A lesson that many of us already know, but forget to apply in our everyday lives. Our feet carry us places. They can carry us into trouble and into sin, but more importantly they can carry us away from it. Thus if you have already repented and been baptized in Christ's name only one thing remains. You have been called, you have been chosen, but have you been faithful?
Hebrews 10:26-27 tells us, For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Confession is available to us as seen in 1 John 1:9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Yet when we confess our sins we are to learn from our error. Confession is repentance unto the changing of ways. It is not intended to be abused or treated as a light matter which is easily healed by penance. When we learn from our mistakes we should remember not only to watch out for each other, but also where we let our own steps carry us.
... Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Matthew 3:3
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