Lydia's bedtime routine:
*Reading with the big kids and dad.
*Two songs and a prayer with mom.
*And then our bedtime chant of--
"Goodnight.
Sleep tight.
Wake up bright,
in the morning light,
to do what's right
with all your might!"
But a few nights ago she added her own
theologically-sound-volume-enhanced-concluding-plea:
"Oh God, will ya' please help us?"
Isn't that the way it truly is?
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments."
~John 14:15
"...for apart from Me you can do nothing."
~John 15:5
Faith That Walks
Was it their faith--or the marching
That crumbled those walls of Jericho?
Walking faith that moves.
Shout, for the Lord has given you the city.
Was it his faith--or the altar building
That brought Abraham's thicket ram?
Painful faith that trusts.
On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.
Was it their faith--or the hidden baby
That saved Moses to lead God's people?
Brimming reed-basket of faith.
I have come down to deliver them.
Was it their faith--or the Red Sea steps
That drove back those walls of water?
Believing footprints of faith.
For the Lord fights for them.
Was it her faith--or the red rope dangling
That spared Rahab and her family?
Scarlet streaming faith.
And she has lived in Israel to this day.
Faith without works--
Is dead.
Useless.
A diseased fruitless tree.
And the fig tree withered at once.
Not deeds--
That justify.
For only Grace redeems.
But in all this...
A faith that does.
A faith that acts.
A faith that abides.
A faith that cries out:
I believe; help my unbelief.
And so--
I will reach for the fringe of His garment.
With grasping faith.
Trusting in
The giver of Faith.
Help me to
Walk--
My faith.
Clinging to
The One
Who is faithful.
~Kara Chupp
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