[092]. A Message From A Poem – For We Are Flesh And Blood

[092]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – FOR WE ARE FLESH AND BLOOD

We are emotional people and emotions often influence our feelings and life and behaviour. Emotions do need controlling e.g. a person might be “in a bad mood” but must not let that become bad attitudes to others.

Sometimes we can be down in the dumps, and may wake up “not feeling ourselves”. We can feel spaced out, not with it, even a bit depressed and miserable, and that may be for no apparent reason. That is our human makeup and as Christians we are still subject to these mood swings.

However underlying all that, we have a joy that is far more powerful than the swings of emotion because joy is a gift/fruit of the Holy Spirit. The Lord lives in our lives but we are human beings, and emotional people is the way God made us.

In this poem I try to open up the matter of feelings and why we feel down sometimes. I hope this is a message for that who are down in the dumps or just not themselves. May the Lord always keep us all and encourage our hearts. Very soon we will be in the Lord’s presence where there will never be a tear again.

{{Revelation 21:4-5 and He shall WIPE AWAY EVERY TEAR from their eyes, and there shall no longer be any death. There shall no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain. The first things have passed away.” He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new,” and He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.”}}

{{Romans 8:26 “In the same way THE SPIRIT ALSO HELPS OUR WEAKNESS for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words,”}}

{{Hebrews 4:15 “for we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathise with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.”}}

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FOR WE ARE FLESH AND BLOOD

Why is it, Lord, that some days dawn

With heavy skies and clouded morn

That dull the sun of Your true peace?

Foreboding, fear, and doubt release.

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We do belong to Christ who holds

Our very being. He enfolds

With arms of love and watchful care,

And in distress our hurt He’ll bear.

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Yet we remain still flesh and blood,

And liable to changing flood

Of strong emotions of the soul

Where varied passions over-roll.

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He knows the weakness of our heart;

The tendency it has to part

To human strengths of self-willed plan

That eats away at every man.

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Deflated? Yes, at times we are

When Christian things may seem afar.

That clouded morn may dawn on me

When God’s own presence I can’t see.

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In times like this His written word

Above the grey dawn must be heard.

Emotion must not rule our lives,

But God’s dear presence - it abides!

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When fears displace and doubt takes hold

Remember, you are in His fold,

And for His sheep, He’s gone before.

For God’s full peace, He is the Door.

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9 October 1999 R E Ferguson 8-8-8-8