What can I say but Thee?
What can I feel but You?
Where will I hide
Where you can’t abide?
You are the center of my will
What are these feelings I feel?
What about the things I’ve seen?
Where have I been?
Where will I go?
You are the center of me
What of the love received?
What of the pain relieved?
Friends forsaken
Family forgiven
You are the center of my fill
What is this way I take?
What of the path I forsake?
Guide me along
Fill my heart with a song
You are the center of my way
What can I then do?
What can I then choose?
The strings are attached
Yet the door is unlatched
You are center stage
Though all prosper or fail
Though all come or turn
It doesn’t really matter
For all is contained
You are center we see
What can we possibly say?
To You we pray...
Do as You please
To our knees we then fall
You are the center of all
Again to our knees we fall
For You are center of all
Forever to our knees we fall
Forever You are center of all
"For of Him, and through Him,
and to Him, are all things: to
Whom be glory for ever. Amen."
4/5/09
Copyright © 2009 Brian Jackson All rights reserved
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Prize God in Himself
I have been meditating on the fact of God being our supreme cause of contentment. Thus, the following excerpt spoke to me...
Take heed of confining thy welfare to outward means, as if thou couldst not be happy without such an estate, without so many hundreds in the world; beware of binding up thy life and contentment with the creature, for when we come to part with it, we can as soon part with our lives. The children of God resolve, 'Though the fig-tree do not blossom, and the labour of the olive fail, yet to rejoice in the Lord,' Hab. 3.17, 18. This should be a Christian's resolution, not to trust to the creatures, but in God, though all these things are gone. This is a holy independency, when our hearts are taken off from the creature. The men of the world have only a candle which is soon blown out, an estate that may easily be blasted: but the children of God have the sun, which can stead them without a candle. The Lord saith, Hosea 2.11,12, 'I will cause their mirth to cease,' speaking of the carnal Jews. Why? 'I will destroy her vines and her fig-trees.' All the wicked man's happiness is bound up with the vine and fig-tree, with his estate. Consider, your happiness doth not lie within yourselves, nor in any other creature, but in God alone. God in himself is much better than God in the creature; now carnal men, they prize God in the creature, but not God in himself. And therefore the first thing we must depend upon is that God is an all-sufficient God in himself; not God in friends, not God in wealth, but God in himself. We cannot see how it can be well without friends, and wealth, and liberty, therefore our hearts are glued to them. Oh, take heed of this. All these things are but several pipes to deliver and convey to us the influence of the supreme cause; therefore still prize God in himself before God in the creature.
Thomas Manton - A Treatise of Self-Denial
Take heed of confining thy welfare to outward means, as if thou couldst not be happy without such an estate, without so many hundreds in the world; beware of binding up thy life and contentment with the creature, for when we come to part with it, we can as soon part with our lives. The children of God resolve, 'Though the fig-tree do not blossom, and the labour of the olive fail, yet to rejoice in the Lord,' Hab. 3.17, 18. This should be a Christian's resolution, not to trust to the creatures, but in God, though all these things are gone. This is a holy independency, when our hearts are taken off from the creature. The men of the world have only a candle which is soon blown out, an estate that may easily be blasted: but the children of God have the sun, which can stead them without a candle. The Lord saith, Hosea 2.11,12, 'I will cause their mirth to cease,' speaking of the carnal Jews. Why? 'I will destroy her vines and her fig-trees.' All the wicked man's happiness is bound up with the vine and fig-tree, with his estate. Consider, your happiness doth not lie within yourselves, nor in any other creature, but in God alone. God in himself is much better than God in the creature; now carnal men, they prize God in the creature, but not God in himself. And therefore the first thing we must depend upon is that God is an all-sufficient God in himself; not God in friends, not God in wealth, but God in himself. We cannot see how it can be well without friends, and wealth, and liberty, therefore our hearts are glued to them. Oh, take heed of this. All these things are but several pipes to deliver and convey to us the influence of the supreme cause; therefore still prize God in himself before God in the creature.
Thomas Manton - A Treatise of Self-Denial
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Explain
Words that are deep
So must I explain?
But how do you express sorrow and pain?
If it could be understood
Then why write it down?
Here is the brush
Paint the red town
The town is red because it bleeds
With sorrow, death, pain and greed
All words have been used so what can you say?
There must be a different way
A cavern of thoughts a pictores mind
Is this how to express what we find?
Can not understand? Maybe that’s the point.
For it is your mind I exploit
Make it dig deep
For words are cheap
Your mind is worth more
Open the door
When you think with thoughts
And not just words
You’ll think like a scholar
And not like a bird
3/8/08
Copyright © 2009 Brian Jackson All rights reserved
So must I explain?
But how do you express sorrow and pain?
If it could be understood
Then why write it down?
Here is the brush
Paint the red town
The town is red because it bleeds
With sorrow, death, pain and greed
All words have been used so what can you say?
There must be a different way
A cavern of thoughts a pictores mind
Is this how to express what we find?
Can not understand? Maybe that’s the point.
For it is your mind I exploit
Make it dig deep
For words are cheap
Your mind is worth more
Open the door
When you think with thoughts
And not just words
You’ll think like a scholar
And not like a bird
3/8/08
Copyright © 2009 Brian Jackson All rights reserved
I have been very hesitant to share this poem, but please read the explanation under "Rainbow" and hopefully this will be less of a blow. My main concern has been that this poem could seem prideful. This was basically a forceful way to cause one to think. By the way, I made up the word "pictores". I was not satisfied with any words in the English language and thus created my own.(fitting for the intentions of this poem I suppose) I just found out though that Pictor is a constellation and the genitive form is indeed "pictores". However, I have to disagree. : ) Ok...from now on, I will try not to explain anything. Hopefully you can just enjoy a poem without me ruining it with comments. Please just always read with a pictores mind. : ) I have just explained a poem that begs not to be explained...
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