These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Victory in Jesus

Peace creates the quiet heart.
Peace agrees with Jesus' best.
Changing thoughts is where we start.
Under His wings through every test.
(Hebrews 4:9/ Psalm 91:1-2)

Keep it simple in your ways.
Live with a margin in your days.
"Pretend to be rich, and you'll die without.
Pretend to be poor, and you'll banish all doubt."
(Proverbs 13:7)

Tell of "the Way and the Truth and the Light."
Speak it by morning and all through the night.
Some will believe you, and some, they just won't,
but stopping's no option. So, I beg you, just don't.

With the Lord on your side, and His mercy obeyed,
have great joy in your heart, and a smile none would trade.
When Christ comes (as He will,) on this hope you can cling,
Earthly service may pale to the song you will sing.

"The five talents You gave have gained five talents more,'
but what strength I have used at the last than before.
Yet, so much was not done, that Your Glory deserved.
I've agonized fully, though often I swerved."
(Matthew 25:20)

"My dear child, there's a hope, that will ever remain.
In your life, there were limits to what you could gain,
but after you've lived, in the life, that won't die
will be time for perfecting the things you would try."

Though no verse yet exists, that can prove these dear things,
the heart of the Savior in the hope, that He brings,
seems to show so much more than we ever could know
in this life of the flesh on these pathways below.
(I Corinthians 2:9)

Will we learn in that day? Will we grow to new heights?
There's no promise below, neither proof, that it cites,
but the character known of this Christ, Who still lives,
shows One, Who's effusive, and wondrously gives.

"For eye hath not seen, nor ear yet hath heard,
nor entered the heart of the man of the Word,
what His love has prepared for the ones, who love Him."
But we know of a truth, that all in Him will win!
(I Corinthians 2:9)

When we think of the things, that we wanted to do,
and we're tempted to cry, that life too soon is through,
then we change our dear thoughts to the life, that will come,
and we'll see greater days than our earthly days' sum.

Greater talents to learn, greater cities to lead,
greater places to go, greater tomes yet to read,
greater art left to make for the Glory of our God,
greater moments to sing, and to praise, and applaud.

What if now is the time we will branch out and taste
little snippets of God we will learn in that Place!
For the days of our sojourn, let us try many things,
that our Joy in His Presence will know naught but wings!
(2nd Kings 4:6)

by Jay O'Toole
on January 9th, 2020