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Psalm 55:22

“Come cast your burdens on Me,”
Sweet words from God above,
“I will sustain and help You.”
How kind His endless love!

It is an invitation
To find His perfect rest,
And all who will receive it
With perfect peace are blest.

It isn’t a suggestion
To choose to take or leave,
It is the Lord’s commandment
To all who will believe.

He doesn’t say it only
For burdens we can say
Are not our fault resulting
From going our own way.

He calls for all our burdens
Without reserve so He
With grace and strength sustaining
Can set our spirits free.

What burden do you carry –
Sin, sickness, work, a friend?
Cast all on His strong shoulders
And find they never bend.

Christina Joy Hommes

“Cast thy burden upon the LORD,
and He shall sustain thee:
He shall never suffer the righteous
to be moved.”
Psalm 55:22

Ten Thousand Graves

I passed ten thousand graves at least
This month while on the road,
Ten thousand markers of past lives
Which God in grace bestowed.

Some still were kept by loving hands
So fresh and clean and neat,
With flowers near to break the gloom
Where love and sorrow meet.

While most were long forgotten stones
Set up and tended once,
But now decay and other signs
Show they’re neglected since.

And as I passed these solemn stones,
Reminders life is brief,
I sensed a message from the past
That echoed years of grief –

How many graves among all these
Will open on that day
When angels sound the trumpet blast
To call Christ’s bride away?

How few will thus escape the day
When all the rest must rise
To give account before God’s throne
Of unbelieving lives?

I shudder still to see the rows
And think they never heard
That Jesus came to set them free –
Some never had His Word!

Though they rejected light around
In nature’s grand display,
Still Christ deserves to have His Name
Preached everywhere each day.

And thousands more will soon be laid
Beside the others there;
Must they, too, die without true hope,
Without effective prayer?

Lord raise a band of zealous feet
Who eagerly will go
To every corner of this earth
Your saving grace to show.

Lord, here am I. What is Your call?
What would You have me do?
I give my life, my strength, my all
To love and work with You.

Christina Joy Hommes

No Secret Agents

God’s is the only army
That ever stood to fight
That needs no secret agents,
No spies who lurk at night.

He knows with perfect insight
The resources and plan
Of those who fight against Him –
He knows them to a man.

No undercover soldiers
Are needed in His ranks;
No sneaking, hidden forces
Will find He gives them thanks.

God wants bold, open soldiers
Who love their Captain – Christ –
Because He loves and leads them,
His life He sacrificed.

These men and women chosen
By Him who loves them so
Will gladly own their banner
As under it they go.

They look and sound like Jesus,
They do what He would do,
They follow Him to battle,
They trust He’ll bring them through.

You see, He’s won the battle,
Just skirmishes remain,
Our job is now recruiting
Those held by sin’s cruel chain.

If you’ve been undercover
In hopes the world won’t know
Who is your mighty Captain
So you can come and go,

Then show today your colors
With dignity and grace,
And own the Lord who saved you
Whose throne so soon you’ll face.

To those whose life is worthy
Of Christ their Captain, He
Will give rewards and honor –
Press on to victory!

For soon will come the judgement.
(How soon we do not know.)
So on, then, Christian soldier
Hear how His trumpets blow.

Christina Joy Hommes

Reference:

John 12:42-43

Is Your Field Dry?

He took a boat across the sea;
As soon as He had arrived
A man possessed by demons came
Of social grace deprived.

Despite their strength those spirits feared
The Son of God on earth,
They pled to enter swine who fled.
(About 2,000 worth.)

The city came and saw the man
Clothed, sober, sitting down;
By darkness bound they asked the Lord
To leave their coastal town.

With earnest plea the man desired
To go with Christ, but He
Sent back the man to tell his friends
“See what God did for me.”

The next time Jesus went that way
A crowd came out to see,
He healed a man and they rejoiced –
How changed our hearts can be!

Perhaps your field seems worse than dry,
You feel your work is vain;
This story offers hope and cheer
To those who will remain.

Christina Joy Hommes

References:

Mark 5:1-20; 7:31-37

Who is the God of perfect light
Whose love has reached to me?
Words can’t begin to tell His worth
Who holds eternity.

He is I Am, the Lord of time,
The uncreated One –
Sufficient in Himself alone,
Not bound to anyone.

His nature at its core is love
Of righteousness and good;
He loves Himself and what will make
His goodness understood.

In grace and mercy He delights –
They work in harmony
With holy justice to reveal
His wisdom vast and free.

His beauty lies in holiness –
Unstained, forever bright;
His glory shines with radiant strength
And hides Him in its light.

This God in love adopted me
To be His child and heir;
Words cannot tell His endless worth
Who keeps me in His care.

Christina Joy Hommes

Can You Stay?

O can’t you see the darkness
Of sin’s oppressive night
That shrouds the world around us
And blinds them to the light?

O can’t you hear the groaning
Beneath the load of guilt
Escaping from the nations
Where strongholds have been built?

O can’t you feel the anguish
And terror of the grave
Without the hope of knowing
The One whose death can save?

There is no Christian witness,
No church they can attend,
No one to love and tell them
That Jesus is a Friend.

O can you bear to leave them
Without the gospel light
When you have met the Savior
And heaven is your right?

O Lord, Your Name is worthy,
But millions haven’t heard –
Send us to tell of Jesus
And of His holy Word.

Christina Joy Hommes