Season 5, Episode 2, The Power of God's Word

42, 5-2, SHOW  NOTES & COPYRIGHTS,  (Scheduled 2/4/2022)Today’s theme, hmmmmmmm     Healing our faith     Thoughts from being with a baby      A day in my life The power of God’s wordThey are all found in Living In God’s Rhyme except the last one which has not been published.     Discussion:Have We Seen, Have We Heard, Are We Healed (Living In God’s Rhyme, pg. 47)“Though seeing, they do not see,    though hearing they do not hear or          understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah;    You will be ever hearing but never           understanding;    you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.    For this people’s heart has become          calloused;    They hardly hear with their ears,    and they have closed their eyes.    Otherwise they might see with their eyes,          hear with their ears,          understand with their hearts    and turn, and I would heal them,”Matthew 13: 13-15The heart keeps the body alivePumping blood through our veinsSo in living we might thrive,We might live without bodily pains.But when calloused our heart becomes,We seek wealthInstead of health.Our days become totals of our sums.Our hearing, our sightDo not hear or see the fightAs we run from the lightInto darkness.This world has forsaken the light.Living with our adulterous gods of money and sin,Never knowing what should be right,Never knowing that tomorrow we may not win.We believe that the easy road leads to pleasureAs we follow our heart to find the treasure,The satisfaction of believing we are good,Not knowing we never really understood.Have we heard someone speakThat as mere mortals we are weak?Has someone ever taken our handAnd lifted us up to stand?Has anyone asked you to listen, to lookAt your yesterdays and todays to see what you took,To see that we have no gainFor what we cause in a world of pain?Someone please shout,Shout the world aboutAbout God’s saving graceAs we have we run this race.Be healed,Your fate sealedBy believingAnd receivingThe SonOf the oneAnd only GodWho loves us all.Please,Hear His call.Reflection on Have We Seen, Have We Heard, Are We Healed”Near the end of God’s Rhyme I noticed that the poetry was changing. There was more of the pain we cause God. I should correct that, more of the pain I cause God. It culminated with the last poem I wrote for the book, Broken Hearted. It was about how throughout Old Testament and New Testament history we have broken God’s heart. I think that God Still Rhymes has that in it also. In writing the third book I am finding that I am being led to continue that theme, that and the need for God in our...