Season 5, Episode 8, God So Loved the World

48, 5-8, SHOW  NOTES & COPYRIGHTS,  (Scheduled 3/18/2022)Today’s poems are all from Living in God’s Rhyme.  They can be found starting on page 21 and going through page 30. I thought it best to read the reflection for the first poem before reading the poem.  It might help us through the reading, discussion and as I read it, understanding what was going through my mind as I was writing.Reflection on Thoughts from the Index Card BoxSometimes I have a good day at work. Today was one of those because I had an idea for today's write. A few years ago I started to write down notes on index cards of Bible verses or thoughts I had while reading. They have sat for a few years not collecting dust because they have been stored in a box. I have found that things stored in my brain get lost. So this idea came to me (you figure out from where) to put a few of the notes into one poem. This is the result of safe storage and God's answer to prayer.TOUGHTS FROM THE INDEX CARD BOX“Here I am!  I stand at the door and knock.  If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come out and eat with that person, and they with me.”   Rev 4:19 (NIV)Jesus, he is here,Here, there and everywhere.We do not always see himBecause we have shut the door.So he knocks and calls our nameSo we may hear his voice and open the door.He seeks us outAs in our lives we move about,Here, there,There and everywhere.It is the door to our heartThat he wants to enter throughSo we may have a new startTo the lives we are living through.We will sit at his tableAnd be more than ableTo do more than beforeWe opened the door.Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.  Gal 3:13 (NIV)His creation falling, sinning Against God and his Law,Commandments we would not keep.Only occasionally forgiveness did we seek.But God so loved us, So wanted us to be with him,That he sent his Son Jesus,To be sacrificed for our sin.Accepting and believing In the final atonement,His sacrifice on the crossRedeems us from our loss.God cursed himselfThrough his Godly Son,A curse we deservedBut now “it is done.”“For my Father’s will is that everyone that looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.”  John  6:40 (NIV)Raised up on the last day,For what more could we pray.But for now on this earth we stayMerely earthen vessels of clay.But through God’s graceAnd our undying faithThese earthen vessels of clayWill be made anew one day.We have been made righteous in his sight,Redeemed in his eyes,Our sins forgiven,And through our love for him We will live in his glory.Starting with the Christmas storyWe are now with God made right.“If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person.  For I did not come tojudge the world, but to save the world.  There is a judge for the one that rejects me and does not accept my words; the...