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With each line I’ve tried to reflect the love of a God who is both infinitely beyond us and yet closer than our very breath. These poems reach toward understanding Christ’s redemptive work, the awe-inspiring nature of the Holy Trinity, and the struggles we encounter on our path of faith. My aim is to capture those glimpses of divine presence that often slip through words, moments that reveal God’s abiding love and call us to rest in His presence.
My hope is that these poems offer companionship in moments of solitude and that, together, we can find strength, peace and joy in the presence of the One who calls us all to be still and know Him.
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The Spirit of Truth
Sin slipped into the world through one man’s mistake;
With a serpentine grip like that of a cobra, that old snake.
From the tree of good and evil, forbidden fruit in which they did partake;
Yet through Christ’s redemption, hung on that cross, did our souls become awake.
For this reason, death dominated from Adam’s dawn to Christ’s conquering light;
For if the many perished through the mistake of one man and his wife,
How much more did God’s glorious grace
Overflow to the many in magnificent might!
Just as sin slipped into the world through one man;
Sin was also silenced through one man:
Jesus Christ, Son of God,
Saviour of mankind and sure Saviour of our souls.
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross;
So that we might die to sins;
And live for righteousness;
And by His wounds we are healed.
Hope in Christ holds us high and never humiliates the humble;
For God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit,
Who has been graciously given to us.
Sent from heaven above,
At the most perfect, predestined moment,
When we were still powerless and pathetic;
Christ died for the ungodly; the unworthy.
To fulfil what was written and prophetic,
What we have received is not the Spirit of this fallen world;
But the Spirit who is from God;
So that we may grasp and glorify what God has freely given to us:
The promise of life.
And a promise from Christ;
“And I will ask the Father;
And He will give you another Advocate to aid you and abide with you forever—
The Spirit of truth.
The world cannot welcome Him;
Because it neither sees Him nor knows Him.
But you know Him;
For He dwells with you.
He will testify about Me.
He will guide you into all truth.
He will not speak on His own; He will speak only what He hears;
And He will disclose to you what is yet to come.”
For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit;
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers;
But fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of His household;
Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
With Christ Jesus Himself as the chief cornerstone.
In Him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord;
And in Him, you too are being built together,
To become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit.
For when the kindness and love of God appeared,
He saved us;
Not because of righteous things we had done;
But because of His mercy.
He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit;
Whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
So that, having been justified by His grace,
We might become heirs having the hope of eternal life—
A living hope.
And finally, brothers and sisters;
If Christ be in you,
The body is dead because of sin;
But the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him;
So that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The love of God;
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ;
And the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Amen.