For New Years Eve I was asked to write a poem for our Churches NYE celebration , 2016 has been a very different year for our Church and I was somewhat quite unsure about what to say - so I remember thinking : what would Jesus write to our church ?
I left it till quite late, wanting to make sure I did just write what I wanted. But my heart was led to Revelation 3, where Jesus writes letters to the churches and so I began .
To the Church of whom these words will reach …
I love you,
I always have, and always will.
2016 was definitely unseen, but mighty trials of works were they.
Do not see the trials as defeat - for you are not defeated.
Do not see the setbacks as unforgivable sin, your sanctification is not completed.
Keep going.
The Kingdom of God is await for you,
When you seek Me first.
Do not take to the mammon for there is so much more, when for righteousness you hunger and thirst.
The riches in mind are not the things of this world - for there is so much greater
Do not settle for the asphalt here, there's something significant you need to remember:
See in heaven, the streets are paved with gold, and that is something one likes to repeat.
But I will be there, your gaze will be on Me, and the gold - well t’will be lowly, trodden beneath your feet.
You won't pursue it then so don't pursue it now.
Don't lean on your understanding you will find a way somehow
To get back to Me, your first love, your only love - for it is your heart that I want to see.
You see lack of knowledge can cause people to perish, but too much knowledge can do the same, to lose the power of the simple-ness of My Word, to take in vain My Name.
Do not forget so easily the lessons that were brought your way,
The battles with sin you fought, the new mercies you received each day.
You may have lost a brother, but I here gained a son,
Lean now one upon the other until the work is done.
Do not worry about tomorrow, do not fain at what is unseen.
For I will never leave you, not now nor certainly in 2017.
