Venturing Going up higher, and only by Grace Offered by Doug Blair, Waterloo ON, 2020
You are not half way
Up the Mountain
Most days neither am I
Seems so unattainable
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So Holy and High.
But Christ is there
And yet aware of all
We struggle through.
He comes beside
And lives inside
(If we have bid Him welcome.)
He holds the key
Each mystery of Grace
To be disclosed:
Wisdom
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Righteousness
Sanctification
Redemption
Made unto us (1 Cor. 1: 30, 31)
Yes here His higher ground
Indwelling; hopes shown, found.
So venture, self-abasing
Fretting, our small.
His the great and tall
The grand and helpful
Up higher still
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Granting freedom unto all.
So climb, if you will.
Large Requests Your love and largesse
Will stoop to no bound
You come with the rescue
And things once unthought.
And I am your partner
Might I pray so largely
That miracles happen
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Through one Calvary bought.
But never to stand proud
And never to seek praise!
I just want to work with you
Through endless days.
And no insult here
Through guarded request
Or trembling or doubting
That You mean your best.
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Mountain God
(​Mountains around Maligne Lake, Alberta)
Not changing
With shifting wind.
Cupping the sunrise
As a thing
Flashing forth
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By your consent.
Source of waters
Highland streams
Where small
Scampering things
Greet new day’s warmth.
Seeming source
Of thunders
Arsenal of bolts
Of shocking power.
Singer of haunting
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Night wind’s tunes.
There in place,
Your place
Long before the fathers.
Halting our present breath
With steep inclines,
Testing the might
Of leg and limb.
Pausing to cradle
Dwarfish alpen blossoms
Hidden thawing beauties
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Delighting, perhaps,
You alone.
We look up to you
And seek understanding.
Mountain God
Our God‌forever.
(Psalm 48)
In the Order of Melchizedek ​Father I wear them on my heart
A delightful burden
For the priestly call
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I love them all.
As parent for a tumultuous Clan
I know what’s in Man
Been there for the whole ambit
Suffered, bled, died
Rose with laughter
The Grave a humbled foe.
Father might they all know
Did it for them
Would do it again
But thankfully “once” was enough.
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And Spirit conveys the right stuff
To hungry, thirsty ones.
Your daughters and sons.
(Read Hebrews 7 through 9)
https://momentsmidstream.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-covenantgotta-be.html
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, we seem to study endlessly the teachings about your Grace extended to every Child of Faith. But we do not live in the confidence of this as we should. You tell us to come boldly to Your Throne. Without condemnation or trembling. This is all because of what Jesus accomplished in His Passion and Rising. Please Father move within us to create new vistas of victory, not for self, but for the Body of Christ, the growing Church. As simple children we will ask humbly and stand believing. You have all the Power. You have all the Glory. We will overcome and see wonders.
In Jesus’ Name I pray...Amen.
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