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WHISPER OF A FRIEND:
Are You walking all alone?
Are things so rough, you fear much more?
Yet in your heart, there's something that you sense
The deep, and gentle whisper
of a long-lost Friend.
In times, just past, you couldn't hear.
The noise of life, drowned out His call.
But now your heart responds to Him.
Broken now, in desperation,
needs a Friend.
This Friend you sense, is very real.
He's come to love, He's come to heal.
His Name you know, yet you can't face:
For in the past, His Name,
you know you have disgraced.
He loves you still, don't fear His hate.
He loves you much more than your disgrace.
He's offering now, to fill your heart:
With all His love, with all His peace,
He's offering a brand new start.
Don't waste more time, you know not life.
This day's THE DAY to make it right.
If there's a word, that I could say:
I'd tell you, for many of us,
it was the same.
We lived our lives, for fun and games.
We did those things that brought Him shame.
Yet when we needed what we didn't have:
He gently offered what it was
that we still lacked.
Oh yes, life is still terribly hard.
But such a Peace now fills our hearts.
He came back in, and forgave us.
That's what He's offering to you right now
it is His Trust.
He knows our hearts, He knows our fears.
And even so, He still wants us near.
Please don't hesitate, don't let Him leave:
We all need the Friend,
He's still willing to be.
January 12, 1992
Anchor of Hope Book -- L. Evans
All rights reserved C copyright
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LIVING STONES
Jesus taught His disciples on earth
His Love is what really mattered
He taught He was the fulfillment of Law
He was His Father's Own Holy Standard.
He revealed to those who listened intently
that God's ways were out of man's reach
But that His blood would cover our faults
He would, between us, be the bridge.
Somehow in the telling, we've made it complex
We added, here and there, just a little
Instead of Faith in this Promise of God
we've made it a list of IF YOU'RE..
IF you're really saved, you won't now do this...
and you won't now do that, or the other....
IF you're really saved, you'll look just like me,
for your dough will now have been leavened.
The Yeast that they teach will leaven the batch
all the same, now, each as the other..
Falsely puffed up with the leaven of pride
Ready to fall, should Truth burst them asunder.
God said He'd turn us into His living stones
handcrafted, to another, to fit...
carved here and there by the Potter Himself
reshaped as He determined to do it.
Not molded, not kneaded, not rolled, nor mass produced
each one, individually, created
to fulfill a purpose the Potter designed
He shaped each - just as He needed.
So fear this Leaven of Man
Resist being shaped into man's image.
The Potter Himself, puts you on life's wheel
where He wants you, He shapes you to fit.
August 25, 1992
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