In Praise of Our Lord, Savior, and True Hope: Poem - Provision Ordained for Our Weakness

Every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord -- Philippines 2:11

From there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. -- Deuteronomy 4:29

When the kindness and love of God our Savior 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 Savior. -- Titus 3:4-6

Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his. He changes times and seasons; he sets up kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him. -- Daniel 2:20-22

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. -- Romans 8:38,39

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GOD BLESS THE USA

"It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” -- Patrick Henry [May 1765 Speech to the House of Burgesses]

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” - Patrick Henry

"The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His Apostles.... This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government." -- Noah Webster from public school textbook, 1831: "History of the United States"

“The policy of one age may ill suit the wishes or the policy of another. The Constitution is not subject to such fluctuations. It is to have a fixed, uniform, permanent construction. It should be, so far at least as human infirmity will allow, not dependent upon the passions or parties of particular times, but the same yesterday, today, and forever.” -- Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court

Monday, August 3, 2009

Poem - Provision Ordained for Our Weakness

Provision Ordained for Our Weakness

by K. L. Kraemer

When the psalmist asked who is like unto You,
Did You bring an answer to him?
In moments of silence I ponder Your ways
And the mystery veils a portrait dim.

Revered in the splendor of holiness,
Surrounded by glory so pure,
Above the earth's circle You are enthroned.
Forever Your Word will endure.

The plants, the oceans, moon, and stars
Follow wisdom in a path clear and free.
The laws of Your science are obeyed in faith
in fulfillment of their destiny.

Foundations laid down marked beginning of time
While You rode on the wings of the wind.
Boundaries observed long assigned by Your rule;
The exception is man who had sinned.

Don't you think if I knew how I'd keep righteous paths, too,
Enveloped in harmony of love?
I surrender in weakness my soul to Your grace
And receive garlands of strength from above.

Distinct from the plants or animals or stars,
I discern that I am yet undone.
I know to praise You and thank You in all eternity
For the sacrifice of Your worthy Son.

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

Isaiah 6:5-7