How to know?

Isaiah 1:18     New English Translation

18  Come, let’s consider your options,” says the Lord.

“Though your sins have stained you like the color red,

you can become white like snow;

though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet,

you can become white like wool.

 

How to know?

 

Burdens of the spirit, are they indeed God’s call to us?

Are we sealed in oneness with God but still not understand?

God says He speaks clearly, but we seem not to comprehend it

We know the problem is not with Him but with our human plans

 

To manifest God’s Will in me, how does He go about it?

He speaks with a small soft voice, but do I drown Him out?

I don’t even know He’s talking as I'm busy with other things

What I deem too necessary asI find myself often in a crowd

 

So when I receive a burden, am I then to suppose and reason?

Trying to figure out somehow if this is really what God wants

If it appears reasonable to do and it’s in the scripture’s season

Why not go ahead with it and please God to have His “wants”?

 

What if my spirit is weighed-down, but indeed not by my Savior?

It might be Satan’s intent to crush in such so my “will” to oppress

He will deny me to pray and so try to manipulate my behavior

To bring feelings of help- and hopelessness as not Christ to possess

 

God’s concern always motivates prayer and meditation

He loves to reason together and explaining about everything

The things I don’t understand and so to cover my frustration

As He supplies the Faith to provide true peace deep within

 

We will never lose the opportunity to pray 

For The Lord loves to communicate with us

But prayer should be listening and not speaking

For that is God’s way in the relationship with us

 

Jan Wienen 

This poem is about: 
Me
My community

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