Three Poems – Graphic Print

COMMENTARY ON I FELT THE WARMTH OF HOLY HANDS

What a praise we give to the God of heaven!  Sometimes God bypasses the demands of faith on the believer and just plainly lets us feel His glorious Presence.  I am a feeling person.  I come from a background of people who feel their Christian spiritual experiences.  From time to time God comes sweetly near to me and I sense His awesome presence or touch upon my body.  I am overwhelmed by His love and kindness toward me. When God chooses to reveal His physical presence it demonstrates to me His personal desires to share intimacy with each of His children.  With His precious blood, Jesus has loosed the source of heaven’s great supply.  We all benefit from that covering for our sorrows and sins.  O to desire and feel the warmth of holy hands upon our hearts today!

 COMMENTARY ON O THAT I MAY WALK WITH GOD

This is the oldest of my sacred poems, and, except for song tunes my very first poem.  It was written in the mid-eighties and originated, as with other poems with a germinal thought from heaven.  I mused, “How wonderful it would be to literally walk with God.”  This poem is highly suited to several famous hymn tunes (see if you can make it fit one of your favorites such as O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing.  The poem is centered on the idea that Christians can develop a deep and loving intimacy with God.  It is wonderful to think that we can “breathe His Spirit’s breath, inhale the sweetness of His love, and lose the fear of death.”  At last death will lose its ultimate power over us as we “lay our weary burdens down, through death in Him to hide.”

COMMENTARY ON I BORE A WOUND UPON MY SOUL

This is the classic poem to illustrate God’s power to perform inner healing in the emotions and spirits of human beings.  So many bear wounds upon their souls that are well-hidden from human eyes.  So many pretend that they are all right and don’t need the Body of Christ to pray and intercede for them.  But to the all-seeing eye of God the soul lies bare.  God does not look at the inner soul to criticize or condemn, instead, He seeks an invitation from us to enter into the deep recesses of our hearts and minds to do a divine work of healing and restoration.  One reason that we allow His work in our lives is because He knows the hurt that (we) now bear. Jesus walked the road of rejection, suffering and indescribable pain.  He knows our suffering and is able to apply healing power to the site of the wound and we are healed by His grace.  In solemn and joyful relief, and as a result of the healing touch of Jesus, we are able to say,

How glad I am that He passed by,

And stopped to beam His love;

Such happy thoughts now fill my days,

To dwell with Him above.

NOTE: This poem is one of many found in the collection Jewels from His Crown