Are You Prepared to Cry?

“To see injustice

Where I walked on by.

To feel Compassion,

Where I closed my eyes.

To hear the children,

Where I once was deaf.

To weep the tears,

Where I once just left.

To feel the piercing

Of the heart,

Where I once was bitter

From the start.

To intercede,

Where I never would.

To extend the hand,

Where it can do good.

To hear Your voice

Over the din.

To be brand new

Where I once was sin.

To drink the cup,

Where I passed it by.

To have the mind of Christ

Is to prepare to cry.”

“Jesus wept.”

John 11:35 (ESV)

Poem by denisebalog

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“The unspiritual self,

just as it is by nature,

Can’t receive the gift

of God’s Spirit.

There’s no capacity for them.

They seem like so much silliness.

Spirit can be known only by spirit –

God’s Spirit and our spirits in

Open communion.

Spiritually alive, we have access

To everything God’s Spirit

Is doing, and can’t be judged by

Unspiritual critics.

Isaiah’s question,

“Is there anyone

‘For who has known the

Mind of the Lord

That he may instruct Him?’

 

But we have the mind of Christ.”

1 Corinthians 2:14-16 (The Message)

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Photo captured at the Sea of Galilee.

In the little church at “Tabgha”

where Jesus made breakfast for His

disciples on the shore. John 21