Daily Devotional

God's Family

Like rivulets to a river like a branch into a stream
Love from one to another in God's people should be seen
Like voices in a chorus swelled in perfect harmony
This is what God desires in His people all should see

But sadly all too often we're worn down by too much care
And living like our Saviour is the last thing that we share
And people in uncertainty who doubt the Christian call
See nothing to desire there not one good thing at all

Appealing to their inmost heart where lies their inmost need
Where dwells that little fragile child that quietly does plead
For someone with the answer to the trials that they face
Someone to teach them of the faith that holds to Godly grace

And so they wander hurting building hope on something less
Than heavens home of joy and peace and Jesus' righteousness
Assuming by some little good in this life they might do
They'll find another life beyond to start again brand new

But still among the crippled in this world of want and sin
The crippled minds and broken hearts of lost and selfish men
A never ending circle that repeats eternally
From which we have no earthly hope of ever being free

But those who truly know God as their Father and their Life
Who live each day in thankfulness amidst the worldly strife
Have something more than circles to base all their hope upon
For in the cross of Jesus Christ their faith can see beyond

The tomb that could not hold Him as death could not stop our King
Who by His very words of life created everything
And by His hands that formed us made us one to be like Him
As precious little diamonds set around the perfect Gem

And though we've lost our luster though we're mired in the mud
If we will simply trust His love He'll wipe away the crud
And make of us what we have not the power to be ourselves
His lights of love and purity that live to give themselves

As one great perfect body bound by chords that never fail
His chords of love and service sealed in blood from round the nails
That makes us one as we are cleansed from sin and made to be
A perfect whole reflection of God's mighty family

Exodus 23:20-22; Isaiah 58