Too many pastors seek Contributions,
when they should seek Conversions.
Archive for December 6th, 2008
What Do You Seek?
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Whale Talk
Posted in Limerick, poem, tagged “all wet”, bad prophet, Canada, don’t run from God, eastern Ontario, Limerick, odd taste, peaceful swim, whale talk, whim on December 6, 2008| Leave a Comment »
I was out for a peaceful swim,
When God told me to “pick up” him –
Some bad prophet who was “all wet.”
(That odd taste I remember yet L).
Men, don’t run from God on a whim! – eab, 12/6/06
Written while pastoring in eastern Ontario, Canada.
William Cowper – penned this date, Dec 6, 1769
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“O For a Closer Walk with God” (stanza 2-5)
Where is the blessedness I knew,
When first I saw the Lord?
Where is the soul refreshing view
Of Jesus and His Word?
What peaceful hours I once enjoyed!
How sweet their memory still!
But they have left an aching void
The world can never fill.
Return, O holy Dove, return,
Sweet messenger of rest!
I hate the sins that made Thee mourn
And drove Thee from my breast.
The dearest idol I have known,
Whate’er that idol be
Help me to tear it from Thy throne,
And worship only Thee.
William Cowper on this very date wrote this hymn. He was a back-fence neighbor to John Newton (“Amazing Grace”). Cowper also penned “There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood” “God Moves in Mysterious Ways” and sixty-some more hymns.
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