Contentment and Godliness

 

Luke 1: 46-47. Mary: “My soul magnifies The Lord

and my spirit has rejoiced in my Savior”

 

A young girl smiling through the years and about her contentment

Her fill of godliness ... makes me wonder about our past.

Uncertain and old, dressed in defeat ... we can’t even ponder

about the shape we’re in ... as we’re sinking very fast

 

Values placed are mostly wrong and priorities often scrambled.

Driven by the material even the thought of loss brings fear.

No matter what we do ... we don’t want to change

the way of our chosen life at the expense of many tears.

 

The soul that magnifies ... is where the power resides.

To discern and decide ... to honor whom it wants too

Is it a choice deliberate ... or a longing from the heart

that magnifies the Lord in deed ... and impromptu?

 

My spirit rejoices ... and can only do so spiritually.

Only to be understood ... by the Heavenly Host

Only in appreciation ... for what God has provided

no human can understand ... or claim a selfish boast.

 

Mary, you carried Jesus ... The Son of God within.

A foreboding of all things ... that God would do for me

The day that He redeemed me ... and saved me in forever,

that is the day He entered ... the temple within me.

 

Jan Wienen