Why Get Just Weeds?
Its true that if you plant a crop
Some weeds will grow as well,
But when it comes to harvest time
Your granaries will swell.
Yet if you do not plant at all
You’ll still get weeds that grow.
Life’s problems come, why let them be
The only thing you know?
Christina Joy Hommes
Make My Life a Blessing
Lord, help me be a blessing
To those I know and meet
To show Your love and mercy,
Your grace and strength complete.
Direct my thoughts to see them
As Jesus would, I pray,
And give me His compassion
To care for those who stray.
Give words of tender mercy,
Encouragement, and love;
Lord, help me speak the Scriptures
And point each soul above.
Please guide my very actions
To demonstrate Your care
So through me they might realize
That You are really there.
Lord, make my life a blessing
In everything each day
That Christ may be exalted
Through all I do and say.
Christina Joy Hommes
My Life Is Like a Vapor
My life is like a vapor –
Each day is gone so soon
My tasks are hardly finished
Before I see the moon.
So Christ has kindly offered
That He’ll accept as praise
Routines like meals and working
If done in godly ways.
Lord, help me see time passing
So I will always live
To magnify my Savior
With all the strength You give.
Christina Joy Hommes
“Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” James 4:14
“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Psalms 90:12
“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” 1 Corinthians 10:31
“Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” Ephesians 5:16
The Lord Is at Your Side
Throughout life’s winding pathway,
Wherever you may go,
The Lord Himself will guide you
In ways which He will show.
He’ll walk each step beside you
And bear you in His arms,
He’ll guard you and protect you
From all of life’s alarms.
Each day will bring new blessings
With tests He’ll bring you through
To show His care and mercy
With love so deep and true.
He knows your name and loves you,
He is your truest Friend;
And soon He will reward you
With life that cannot end.
So love the Lord completely,
Believe His Word and pray,
And keep your eyes on Jesus
Who’ll keep you day by day.
Today and in the future
I pray He’ll bless and guide,
And help you sense each moment
That He is by your side.
Christina Joy Hommes
Twice By Faith Alone
By faith alone a man believes
The gift of God is free,
Without true faith you can’t be saved
And gain eternity.
By faith alone a Christian lives
If he would please the Lord,
Without true faith you can’t please God
And find His rich reward.
Twice over, then, by faith alone
We live by faith not sight,
Because we hope for things unseen
Which God will bring to light.
Christina Joy Hommes
Layers of Christian Growth
2 Peter 1:5-8
To faith in God add virtue
Which does whatever’s right;
To virtue add more knowledge –
God’s Word will give you light.
Add self-control to knowledge –
Resisting fleshly lusts;
Then add the grace of patience
Which loves and hopes and trusts.
Add godliness to patience –
A God-like way of life;
Then kindness as to family
Which doesn’t stir up strife.
To all of these advancements
Add charity, yes, love;
For these will make you fruitful
And guide your path above.
Christina Joy Hommes
“And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 1:5-8
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