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A helping Hand
O’ wretched man I am. That which I wish to do, I do not do. That which I do I hate.
Like an animal trapped in the hunters trap, lured to it by his bait.
O’ trapped in this dreadful flesh, a slave to sin.
Toiling in the plantations of wickedness.
Shivering and quivering, fearing my slave master.
Every day, churning out sin. with the whip snapper shouting “faster, faster”
shackled to the chains of dispair,
daily emaciated feeding on dung and sleeping on worms.
Life was dismal, yet because I enjoyed to sin, I’ld have to say my dispair was only fair
for I was a rebel.
But your light shined on me, by your Spirit you rescued me who is like a feckle.
You cleansed me, dressed me and put your word in me.
Then you told me clearly ” Holy you shall be”
“For I YHWH your God am Holy”
imagine an ex-criminal now justified and called Holy!
What did I do, surely I don’t deserve it, maybe its because you had pitty on me, is it coz I was so bad?
No the Word clearly said to me “Its because I love you and thats that”
“By Grace you have been saved through Faith, I shed my blood and took the punishment you deserved, died and rose so I could give you a new start.”
In awe I stared, His eyes like flame of fire, more awesome than the sun’s flares.
His face shone brighter than the sun and He told me ” Fear God.”
By His Spirit I searched his word, he revealed to me that the beginning of wisdom is the fear of God.
By His Grace I’ve seen His Glory, yes I’ve seen the face of my Lord!
By His grace I confessed and believed and still do that He is my Lord and that death he defeated, from the grave he rose.
His life lives in me, giving me light to see, leading me daily
He has given me the right to be called His child
considering my past, there is nothing I could have done to have changed this fast.
no amount of works to try and get to God would have sufficed
not a six day fast
every week, month and year
not giving to the poor, not even giving to the deaf my ears
my own righteousness was as filthy rags, the best I could do like dirty menstral pads,
and thats my best, I was far from that, drinking and getting high with the lads,
no fear of God, just happly to waste my life.
Sowing sin in the fields of inequity, i would have reaped death.
But God sent forth His Son, The Son of God became a man, named Yahushua and took my wrath instead.
On that torture stake He bled, so that my sins which were bloody and red
would be made white and I would be cleansed and adopted instead
Even now I’m far from perfect, I still do sin, but your blood cleansed me for good
I confess my sins to you daily, confessing my various lusts. and you forgive me and your word tells me you do it because you are faithful and just. My thoughts and intentions are naked before you. I’m like that snotty nosed kid who trips my knee’s are cut. Yet you take me and lovingly wash me, though I cry from the pain, its so that from sinning I shall refrain, and eternal Life in you I’m completely sure to obtain. Yes A faithful shepherd you lead me to your pastures, daily on your word I’m sustained.
I remember how I’m simply a sinner saved by Grace, yet you have made me to be a saint, a child of yours who shall abide with you in your Holy place. And when I sin, I hate it, in my rooma all alone with you I pace, angered and feeling disgraced. Yet you gently tell me “There is no condemnation in Messiah.”
“My Grace is sufficient.” At these words I fall on my face. Oh, who am I that i should know God! And so intimately, I’m so unworthy, but your Love O’ God has filled me whole. Condemnation leaves me, and joy and peace fill me. Words that I don’t understand come forth from my mouth and I sing to you. Yes my strength is made new. Who knew that a wretched man, would babble to God like a baby. If people so me they would call me a fool! But who cares, its God who I desire, yes my one and only Sire.The King who had pity on a slave and rescued me from the clutches of a slave driver, The Devil. Who I know to be a liar.
Yah, forever it is you shall adore. All you that Love God evil you must abhor. Its wild lies are the means through which it lures. But when it creeps and tries to get you to trip and maybe with it like a harlot take you to its bed so that with it you may sleep. Remember to kill it, Be killing sin by the Sword of the Spirit. Enjoy killing sin, practice it daily, take up your cross and die to it daily without failing, when you sin, confess and get right up, when you feel trapped shout to God like a baby to its mama, He’ll show you your path of escape, then be strong in the Spirit and become a fast runner, gird up your loins and out run a horse by the power of His Spirit just like Elijah. Thoughts of sin do your best not to harbor, forgive all people and Love God will all your heart, soul, mind and strength. Take up your cross daily again I say, for this pilgrimage all your strength you must garner. Remember your working for The Master, your a servant He’s the Farmer. Put away childish things and work with your hands like a tanner. Walk and live in the Spirit, you died with Messiah and have risen with Him. Soon the redemption of your bodies shall come and you’ll be eating with Him.
He gave me a new life, and with it a new mission. So now a soldier I have become, a fisher man. Casting our nets by His command to save men from perdition. Daily He guides me, setting straight my vision. His words between my eyes, one thing I know. Those who trust in God shall like eagles mount up and fly, never getting weary. Blessed are the feet of those that spread good news. Every time I think about how much The King suffered for me, my eyes get watery and teary. Thats how much He loved me. HE comforts the downtrodden and weary. I rest in His care, and who am I not to sure this good news, for for His people great things has He prepared.
Don’t take my whole story factually,
this parable is meant to give you clarity.
Its a semi-fictional and poetic analogy of a Spiritual and Literal Reality. Of my life and how I was saved and now serve The God of my salvation, its about God’s amazing Grace and the historic miracle that He peformed at Calvary. How He’s drawn all people to Him self and Through The Messiah created a Holy Nation.
And of how and by His Spirit the saints (thats us) endure, persecution and sufferings with patience.
The notes on killing sin are allegorical expressions on how to deal with the flesh’s rebellious nature, think of them as poetic demonstrations. Its about how a depraved soul deserving eternal death was saved by a God of immense and unexpressionable Love, A God who loved the world so much sent His Eternal Son to be a man, and who through pain of death saved me (and all who us who believe) through His dying, bought me redemption and by defeating death made me a new creation. All this highlights the wonders of His Grace, and now that The Eternal Son has been glorified, we too await our eventual and soon coming glorification. The aim of all this rhyming is to show you how flawed we all are and how we miss the mark of His perfection. God’s been working since the beginning, never taking a vacation, all so that we will live with Him forever in perfection. But as we patiently endure, lets fight temptation. Thats a major theme of what I’m saying to you. The lure of lust is a vain of expression, of human depravity and slavery to sin, showing that you are not subject to God’s laws in fact you’re an enemy of Him, a follower and lover of Satan. Sin is serious stuff, God totally hates it. Thats why Yahushua came and died and rose for you, so that you could be saved from the eternal torment reserved for Satan, and that includes His angels. Through Adam’s rebellion the creation has been subjected to a curse, but God shall defeat all his enemies, last of all death, so that eternally with Him we shall be, secure in His Love, living in the newness of Life forever enjoying Him and living in His new Creation. Death will be put in a hurse and swallowed up by Life, its sting lost, no longer shall we live by strife. A new Heaven and a New Earth shall be created. We’re the first fruits through Christ who is the first born of those who rise from the dead.I didn’t mention all of this in my note, but here’s a thought thats worth a note. We find our selves in an interesting situation. We’ve been saved from the wrath to come and promised eternal Life with Messiah Our King and Our God and Father who raised Messiah from the grave, a Life in the Spirit, but we can’t have evil eyes, nope we can’t be stingy. Spread the message of Love, Grace and Hope in Messiah: the Good News! Let every ear hear it! If they believe it “Praise God,” but if they don’t dust your sandles its their own fault they didn’t listen. Your a soldier spread this Glorious Gospel of the resurrected Messiah Our King, who was sent by God the Father and who by the power of the Holy Spirit did great wonders, and still does to this day. Those who don’t listen will surely know His wrath, for they didn’t listen, no they refused to follow the road to Heaven, God’s one way path, they’ve refused to believe that Yahushua gave His life. So since they remain deceived, believing in their lies, God will pass His Eternal Judgement when he decides its time. Every one who’s not in the Lambs book of Life shall eternally die. No more blue skies and sunshine, in the lake of fire they shall forever abide.
Eternally tormented, their pain shall never subside.
Not to so for you, who believe in and love YHWH your God and His Anointed. Eternal Life you shall have, life without end. Splendor and Glory you shall know, living forever in the care of Our King and the Love of Our Father in His Great Home.
Hope this helps you in some way, just wanted to share with you cause some times I take my eyes off Christ and start to play, but we shouldn’t do that. Had it not been for His inifinite mercy dispensed to us through Christ, who knows where I would have been. Know this, in your struggles you are not alone, we are fellow partners in this patient endurace and suffering to which The Lord has called us. He’s always with us, in us and around us. Rememer to keep your eyes fixed on Him, thinking about things in our Heavenly Home. Giving glory to God in the highest! I pray you are kept in His Grace. God bless all those who have trusted in The Messiah, He who makes God known.
Shalom
