Conversational Prayer-Sonnets and Scriptures
September 22 ~
Seek the LORD and His strength; seek His face continually ... seek his presence continually ... If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever ...
1 Chron.16:11 (NAS,RSV); 28:9 (NAS)
Must versus Should - 2*
It isn't that I should, but that I must
seek constantly Thy Presence, seek Thy Face.
My Life Thou art, though I spring from the dust.
To dust would I return, but for Thy Grace
which urges me -
commands me! -
now to live
in Thee by faith: to seek Thee out within ...
A marv'lous strong incentive Thou thus give
to me by making clear that it is sin
to not seek Thee. To spurn Thy loving call
is nothing short of disobedience!
Which means it must be more than possible
to seek and find and know Thine Ambience!
Aware each moment I must truly be
that I'm in Thee, and Thou in me. Praise Thee!
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Amen! Come, Lord Jesus! ... And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him ... "Abide in Me, and I in you" ... he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him ... And now, little children, abide in Him, so that if He should appear, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming ... No one who abides in Him sins ... I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved ... Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore ... I can do all things in him who strengthens me ...
Rev.22:20 (Wil); 1 Jn.2:3-4 (KJV); Jn.15:4, 3:36 (NAS); 1 Jn.2:28 (NAS); Ps.16:8,11 (KJV); Phil.4:13 (RSV).
* The first sonnet bearing this title appeared in the February 14 selection.
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