Grace Brings Us to Conviction (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Stopping in our tracks turning right around falling to our knees confessing to the Lord Grace brings us to conviction ...
Stopping in our tracks turning right around falling to our knees confessing to the Lord Grace brings us to conviction ...
By Christ alone coming back home from the distant land eating with the pigs falling into the pit in the ...
As ancient as ourselves yearning for relationship the Spirit speaking within us drawing us back to God How can we ...
Sometimes on our knees on the way back home sometimes in the bright light on the Damascus Road Seeing through ...
In love revealed the conviction of grace in his loving arms I am healed bringing me back to life God ...
Hearts open sharing with us raw emotion telling their story that we may hear the message God's message of love ...
In some ways all of us prodigals leaving home going our own way Some of us lucky heeding God's calling ...
Becoming the sacrifice taking our sin that God would not exact his judgment on us Like the first Passover lamb ...
When we come home before we confess our sin turning back to God that we may live The Father's response ...
Grace awakens us heals us from ourselves the epiphany of conviction when we see the Christ The grace already around ...
God waiting for us to become aware to sense his presence Knowing He is there We have to open the ...
Not waiting us to turn to come home to God God seeks us out while yet in the foreign country ...
God's love eternal his grace immense offering himself for us while we were yet lost Not when we were ready ...
God coming to us like the father, with open arms but not just out onto the road while we are ...
In turning, submission in turning, grace responding to His call to focus on God in denial, following giving up control ...
We must walk with conviction avoiding situations getting in temptation's way to bring us into sin, to death, estrangement separated ...
Coming to us where we are waiting right beside us to the foreign country not just on the road Seeking ...
Not by our works our attempts at righteousness justified freely, by His grace God's love redeeming before we are convicted ...
While we were yet sinners Prodigals, still in that foreign land living in squalor eating the pods in our sinful ...
Sitting in their pens in the filth of the swine hungry for food eating the pods the stuff of this ...
Authentic living walking in faith their needs may be similar by they know God has always supplied their needs their ...
Relying on God stepping into the breach ministering to others sharing God's love ever to all that we meet No ...
Choosing to reject to turn from God's love wallowing in our own choices separated from the Lord The love God ...
Usurping the place of God turning from his open arms choosing to go to the foreign country away from our ...
Rejecting, turning away the love God wants to give us sin as separation keeping us from him From our neighbors, ...
In the words of scripture the fallen nation the faith, the journey the calling to us Our own story there ...
Taking no more than our portion looking to you not ourselves leaving no one behind sharing our gifts blessings we ...
Join in ministry into God's holy presence serving in our community participate as a Christian offering God's love stepping out ...
Each with a part a holy nation each called to witness to lift our neighbors up Sharing the priesthood the ...
Open and real passion in his witness His love for you Lord washing over us His talk for us poured ...
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