The story is: one night I woke up and thought about the five "One Things" of the previous post. Completely forgetting I had already written about them I wrote the one below. I could blame old age but some bits of my memory have never been very good!
Secure in law-keeping;
Secure in your finances,
"One thing lackest thou":
A sense of need. Mark 10: 21
Conscious of the grace
That had given the light
"One thing I know ...
Now I see". John 9: 25
One thing is needful:
To take the listening part
That Mary took:
At the feet of Jesus. Luke 10: 42
"One thing I do":
The aging apostle could say,
Delineating a way for me:
"I pursue". Philippians 3: 13
"One thing I have desired
Of the Lord": to dwell in His house,
To behold His beauty,
To enquire in His temple". Psalm 27: 4
I
Galatians 6:10
In a world of mist and quagmire
See them, eyese to the light,
Stood upon the Rock:
"The household of faith".
1 Peter 3:17, 5: 9
And as you see them
Surrounded by the world's fangs,
Accomplishing sufferings,
"Love the brotherhood".
1 Peter 2: 10
Though once the world claimed
Them its; or Satan his;
Or they even claimed they were their own:
"Now God's people".
Into Burnmouth, the most south easterly village in Scotland
Due east would be Denmark
The vine had budded, blossomed and produced
Its grapes; they had been picked, and dried and pressed
And brought to David’s men, where they conduced
To show the graces Abigail expressed.
So some were given to the Egyptian slave
In his distress, so that his soul grew strong;
As brought back from the frontier of the grave,
He led against those who did David wrong.
Thus David, when he came to celebrate
The ark of God borne to a settled place
Gave with the bread and wine, joy was so great,
A raisin-cake as token of God’s grace.
And now sustaining food from the True Vine
Through grace and pressure may be yours and mine!
Consciously the disciple whom Jesus
Loved, you followed:
For you had leaned on Him
And you, in that nearness, had
Enquired: these features displayed
Such as continue to the end.
Was the training - one
Of the select: taken to the house
Of Jairus, the mountain of glory,
The garden of distress - squandered
On the point of Herod's sword?
No; you had thus formed in
Perfection heaven required.
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