ONE CANDLE

Light one candle. Let it shine.

You never know what you may find.

To help some lost one, mired in sin.

Just one candle will let Christ in!

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In the darkness, I trip and fall.

I see no one but hear a call.

A voice rings out, soft but clear:

"Right this way! There's nothing to fear!"

Feeling along a rough-hewn way,

Not sure of the end, whether night or day.

If only one candle to see what's there –

I don't want to fall into some animal's lair.

Is anyone there with one little light?

I feel so lost in this hellish blight!

That soft clear call is now a roar.
Please! Someone save me from Satan's door!

Ah! One candle shining in!

The Hand of God has sent a friend.

Just one candle's enough to see.

Thank you, God, for saving me! 

I’m saved when I obey Your Word. 
Thank you, God, that I’ve now heard. 
I’m blessed one person cared for me – 
And with one candle, set me free.

I’ll pass to others what God’s word tells 
To save one soul from Satan’s Hell. 
I’m only one candle, but now I see – 
Because only one candle led you to me.

I’ll “pay it forward” and be one light 
To lead another out of night. 
I pray my candle will show someone 
The way to Jesus ’ere their life is done. 

- by Netagene. I wrote most of this in less that 30 minutes on January 22, 2014. In Steve Murrell's sermon on Sunday, January 19, he said something about "one candle". I thought he was referring to a song, and of course I wanted a copy. He told me later that it wasn't a song, but something in a TV commercial. Well, it's a song now! -

I say

I say I'm a Christian and have been for years

but I really can't tell you when,

or if I prayed through or whatever it was

that you had to do way back then.

I say I love God and the things that He wrote,

The Bible, I'm told, is His book.

Right now I'm not sure where it is in my house.

Guess I’ll find it when I find time to look.

I say that I'm good and don't think that I sin,

that ''little white lies'' are OK.

That's how I feel, and it's fine with me,

if Jesus came back today.

I say it's not cursing to use God's name

as a by-word, when I mean ''wow" or "cool"!

It's common today, and I see no problem.

Besides, I'm not breaking some rule.

I say that Sunday's my time with my family.

No, I don't go to church any more.

Most preachers are boring and there's hypocrites there,

so you won't see me wasting time at their door.

I say to my friends, "Please save your breath

about church, 'cause I really don't care.

So what that your worship's important to you.

I wish you didn’t think you must share!”

I say there's no Heaven and certainly no Hell,

that thIs life is all that there is.

So I cruise along, doing whatever I want,

Living in sweet ignorant bliss.

I say "but what if" what my friends say is true –

Yeah, sometimes I have a few doubts.

But I'll take my chances. I'm OK with my life.

I'll play 'til my lights go out.

But if what they say – that there's more than this life –

there's Hell and there's Satan and sin ...

They talk, too, of mercy, so when I finally pass through –

Maybe God will still tell me "come in"!

- by Netagene, January 16 & January 17, 2014. No, I don't say that! I wrote it as something that some others might say. -

GOD's PLAN

I’m a person. What are you?

I’m not an animal from the zoo,

Not “evolved” from ape or slime –

God gave me breath, made me sublime.

Eons ago, when God made man,

He also came up with a plan.

First made a garden, put Adam there,

And Eve, then too, their lives to share.

God also gave a mind to choose:

Obey His Laws, or not – and lose.

Then Satan came, and through deceit,

The Adams lost, much to our grief.

But God the Father sent His Son,

A sacrifice for everyone.

We all know of the virgin birth,

How Christ the Son came to the earth.

The sacrifice – a perfect lamb,

Was God the Son, the Great I am.

Was buried, but o’ercame His foes –

The risen Savior – Christ arose!

I wrote that August 17, 2010, but only recently found it! It didn’t even have a title, so the best I could come up with was what you see. And even now, I may add to it!

SPECIAL DAYS

In all of our lives, there are some special days,

Celebrated at times in familiar ways.

The day you got glasses so that you could see,

Or hearing aids – Listen! Birds singing in trees!

It’s special when you got an “A” on a big test,

Then the college degree when you’ve done your best.

The birth of a child is usually nice, or

The day that a soldier paid the ultimate price.

The anniversary of when you married the love of your life,

Celebrating times through good things and strife.

But to God, there’s no one special day in the year,

Not one day to celebrate, not one to hold dear. (1)

Some always worship – they regularly go twice,

But two times a year is no sacrifice.

Christmas nor Easter will keep us in line,

But one day remembered yearly, 52 times.

The empty tomb – the stone rolled away. (2)

Christ tells us to remember. That’s what we obey. (3)  

Christ rose from the dead the first day of the week,

Every week has a first day, so that’s what we keep. (4)

The same words are used for the collection, too. (5)

Most churches want money, so that’s what they do.

They take the Lord’s Supper yearly twice, 3, or 4;

But taking up money? They do that much more.

Our lives here are vapor. They’re gone in a puff. (6)

After that, good and bad are separated by a gulf. (7)

Saved by God’s grace? Yes, but still we must obey.

So you feel it’s too much to remember Him every first day?

1. Galatians 4:7-11; 2. Matthew. 27-28; Mark 15-16; Luke 23-24; John 18-20; 3. Luke 22:14-20: I Corinthians  11:20-26; 4. Acts 20:7; 5. I Corinthians 16:1-2; 6. James 4:13-14; 7. Luke 16:20 ff.

- by Netagene, December 28, 2009. I found it only recently in an old e-mail! Yes, I have both "seeing aids" (since I was in my teens) and hearing aids (for about 8 years now), and have an associates' degree (in music) from college. I also attend worship almost every time the doors are open. I think that is what God requires. We are to encourage each other, and the best way is to physically be with others! -