Christian poetry

  • Learning to Love: Day 12

    When You Seek God When you seek God with your whole heartFor what you want to know,He gives no stone in place of bread.What you ask, He will show.Do not inquire of rocks for help.They are not self-aware.Do not consult… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 12
  • Learning to Love: Day 11

    Constancy and Change When the sun’s fire pounds on the earthThen rises back from the roadAs I wipe sweat from my brow, When the cicadas play their fiddlesIn the dewy grassAfter dusk has arrived,I seek You.When the sand squirms between… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 11
  • Learning to Love: Day 10

    Resurrection Had you not lived the perfect lifeTo die for our sins through Your strifeThen risen from the dead,Oh where would mankind be instead?Every deed and everything would beNothing more than vanity.No sun nor moon in its full scopeWould we… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 10
  • Learning to Love: Day 8

    Sanctification The Lord is glorious and mightyShining on His holy hill.He is all-powerful and sovereign.Each of His words He will fulfill.Nothing escapes His divine knowledge.No one can withstand His will.Let every facet of my beingBe refined by Your holy fire.Test… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 8
  • Learning to Love: Day 7

    A Man of Worth He reclined atop his marble chairWith wisdom in his eyes.The boy who gazed at himStood back in awe of his great size.He who looked as if with one clenched fistAnd one gripping handWould take his slightly… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 7
  • Learning to Love: Day 6

    Gifts If I had the wisdom of SolomonOr had the integrity of Joseph–Or Samson’s strength would be enough–If I had the valor of Gideon–If only I had the faith of DanielOr the authority of Elijah–Had I the discernment of Deborah,Eliezer’s… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 6
  • Learning to Love: Day 4

    Sovereignty I serve a sovereign GodWho no one should questionWhen He builds a mighty workThen brings it down to destruction. The sovereign God I serveGave Adam perfect life and peaceFor him and Eve to abuseAnd cause all the greatest grief.… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 4
  • Learning to Love: Day 3

    To Know My Lord Let me see Your complexion,Every freckle, every hair of Your face,Every curl of Your head if it is curled,Every twinkle from the deep eyes of grace.Let me remember the curve of Your chin,Your nose, Your cheeks… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 3
  • Learning to Love: Day 2

    One Day One day this age will be of old,Its trials presenting us as goldIn the new era of the earth.That day will prove our truest worth–Our only value found in Christ.Praised be His Name as the Highest!This age is… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 2
  • Learning to Love: Day 1

    Like I promised, I’m going to repost the poems and devotionals from my book Learning to Love: A Collection of Poetry and 40 Daily Devotions. I posted them all on my blog as I wrote the book and took them… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 1