JEREMIAH

“Upon this I awaked”, the bitterness
Past, “and behold” – a new day,
Every languishing soul replenished -
“And my sleep was sweet unto me”.

ISAIAH

Behold God’s servant,
One whose subjection delights God;
Behold the Sufferer,
The subject of man’s scorn and God’s wrath;
Behold the Sovereign,
His train filling the temple.
2/4/2018

THE SONG OF SONGS

Love rests: do not awake it till it pleases:
The voice of my Beloved, who comes leaping.
Love rests: do not awake it till it pleases:
She comes in all the fragrance of her spices;
Love rests: do not awake it till it pleases:
They come together: she leaning upon Him!
20/05/2018

ECCLESIASTES

“One man among a thousand have I found”:
A poor wise man” whose wisdom saved the city;
No man remembered “Him; none showed Him pity;
And yet God’s will is that His praises should resound.

19/04/2018

PROVERBS

Many were the offences:
   Denied by His disciples;
   Discarded by His people;
   Derided by their priests;
   Demeaned by Gentile curs:
It was His glory
To pass over a transgression.


Proverbs 19: 11
08/05/2018

THE BOOK OF PSALMS

Who is the Sufferer
From men’s power and God’s wrath?
Who is the Shepherd
Whose loving-kindness pursues me?
Who is the King of glory
Mighty in battle?
One and the Same.
24/04/2018

This one shows how tiny a dip in to each book of the Old Testament this is!

JOB

There is
An Umpire: a hand
On God
And a hand on man!

10/06/2018

See Job 9: 33.

THE BOOK OF ESTHER

One known for meekness
Now leads God’s people;
One men rejected
Now is accepted;
Where they knew warfare
He seeks their welfare;
He will speak peace
To all his seed.

16/04/2018

NEHEMIAH

If we observe a man
Within whispering-range of God
That brings Christ to our minds.

27/05/2018

EZRA

Start with the altar in its grandeur,
However small the day may seem:
There is a Man able to sustain all
That would delight the nostrils of God;
Thoughts of Him in His splendour
Cause God’s heart to rejoice.

St Bees
15/05/2018

Rosemary at St Bees

2 CHRONICLES

After the years of carrying,
The ark rests; all within it
Signifies custody of the law;
Levites and priests serving
Unconstrained, voices and instruments:
God endorses all with His presence.

1 CHRONICLES

A man after God’s heart
Has been found:
He will gather for God materiel
For His house,
Have from Him the pattern
Of building,
And create the instruments
For His praise.

22/04/2018