Kneeling at Your Cross–I am Free! January 24, 2007

Let me kneel at your cross

and see what I have done to you.

My sins are on your body,

you’ve been beaten to a pulp.

Your eyes are swollen,

your body is bruised and broken,

you’re bleeding on the inside.

Oh, what have I done?

 

There are huge nails in your hands, Lord

and nails in your feet!

You hang from them in such agony,

and I weep

 uncontrollably.

Jesus,

 may I kneel at your feet

and let the blood that is pouring out of you

fall on me?

 

My arms are outstretched,

pools of blood at my knees.

Drenched in your blood, as I am,

I am set free!

Covered with blood,

yet clean.

 

Your ribs can be seen through your skin,

a hideous sight to see.

Yet the sight causes me to love you,

 love you even more,

than before.

 

Water pouring out of your side

like a woman giving birth.

Birthing a new covenant

of love and grace and redemption.

 

Oh, how blessed am I.

I am blessed that you loved me so much

that you’d be beaten and die

for me.

That you would be my sacrifice,

and cleanse me of sin.

 

At your death, Lord, I mourn.

At your resurrection,

I dance!

Because I am free!

Free and unburdened.

Free to be who you created me to be!

And free to come into Your presence

and worship

my God,

my Saviour,

and my King!

 

(c) shari mcgriff 2007

 

Silent, I sit January 24, 2007

Silent, I sit,

     waiting.

          Waiting to hear the internal voice of God.

How do others see this silence?

     arrogant?

          withdrawn, or shy?

They can not know the conversations

     I engage in with my eternal

          omniscient

               heavenly father.

I am not distant.

     I am engaging in intimate

          discourse with my Father.

               The one who loves me more than all others.

(c) shari mcgriff 2007

    

Abortion January 15, 2007

Abortion. 

Abortion is a crime against women and children,

used by politicians and hate filled feminists

      to push their greed and their agendas. 

Abortion. 

Abortion is a crime against all women and children.

     Do not be deceived. 

That child you are carrying is autonomous—

     not part of your body,

they have a body of their own. 

They need you to nourish them,

however, they are not a part of you

 like an arm, a leg, or an organ,

     to amputate as if you had gangrene. 

That child is a person.

A person with needs.

If you don’t want them,

or you can’t take care of their needs,

then give them to someone who can. 

     For it is better that they have life with someonelse—

          than death by You. 

Abortion can ruin your life. 

Your life will never be the same if you go through with it.

Ask the old women who have had them.

Ask them about their dreams.

Ask them about their nightmares,

     and the screams.

Ask them if they regret it.

They will tell you it is the biggest regret of their life.

Then ask them, if they have children now—

and many will say that they do not.

Why did they not have children later,

     when it was convenient for them?

They will tell you that their bodies were ruined by abortion.

And that their bodies can no longer carry life.

Abortion is a crime.

Abortion is a crime against all women and children.

Do not be a victim.

Do not buy the lies.

Should your mother have skipped having you??

Should she have chosen not to give you life??

No.  Of course not.

You have a right to be here,

give your child the same right.

Let them live and grow, 

    laugh and cry.

If you can not keep them,

give them to someone who can.

For abortion is a crime against all women and children.

Abortion is a crime.

 

© shari mcgriff 2007

Proverbs 14:12 There is a path before each person that seems right,   but it ends in death.
Proverbs 3:6	Seek his will in all you do,   and he will show you which path to take.

Psalm 139:13	You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body   and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Psalm 139:15	You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,   as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.

His Favorite January 7, 2007

Treated as less–

     invisible,

     or just stupid.

Yet God is there

     He knows who He

     made me to be.

I am the righteousness of God

     in Christ Jesus.

The head and not the tail–

     Above only,

     and not beneath–

          someone’s feet.

I am loved.

     His treasure.

A magnificient

     creation.

They may not know who I am,

     but the Creator does,

     and He lives in me.

I am never invisible.

     I am not less.

     And I am not stupid.

I am a child of the King–

     The apple of His eye–

And His Favorite!

(c) shari mcgriff 2007

2 Corinthians 5:21 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)21 He made the One who did not know sin ^(A) to be sin for us, ^(B) so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Deuteronomy 28:13 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)13 The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward if you listen to the LORD your God’s commands I am giving you today and are careful to follow [them].

A Home (to my friends, Bill and Donna) January 7, 2007

A Home not built by

     two hands–

But three.

The invisible hand of God,

Unseen by most–

Yet always present.

Always present and directing

     the paths of the righteous

     into His sovereign plan.

Holy is the Lord!

And Holy is His name!

And blessed is the home

     built by three hands.

(c) shari mcgriff 2007