Conversational Prayer-Sonnets and Scriptures
January 12 ~
Thou knowest when I sit down and when I rise up; thou discernest my thoughts from afar. Thou searchest out my path ... and art acquainted with all my ways ... Thou dost beset me behind and before, and layest thy hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it ... in thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them ...So High!
So high it is for me! So wonderful:
that Thou, Lord, know the contents of the minds
of all mankind: that Thou art capable
each moment of full knowing the designs,
plots, plans, hopes, passions, fears of each man’s "I":
the billions on this Earth! And, even more
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still higher -
is the fact that Thou supply
their thoughts! Both good and ill Thou set before
each man: his thoughts and circumstances -- all!
And higher yet, Thy called ones Thou dost give
choice twixt good thoughts and ill, so they won’t fall:
so that the thoughts they think, by which they live
will be of Good, of the indwelling Christ.
O, by Thy Spirit help me choose aright!
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For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things ... I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil ... I make weal and create woe ... I the LORD do all these things ... He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good ... If any one is in Christ, he is a new creation ... be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God ... And now, little children, abide in Him ...
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