Like a Spring of Water (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Rich living water, like a spring of water never failing, ending rising to refresh us So is the blessing washing ...
Rich living water, like a spring of water never failing, ending rising to refresh us So is the blessing washing ...
The green sky over the water rising from the depth beyond the bright horizon far off to the east After ...
Not a destination save for heaven above the journey of our faith a testament to love God's grace descending falling ...
Do the people of the world those who are yet strangers see the face of Christ when they look upon ...
No gifts like the Magi not royalty no gold, no spices no fragrant perfume Offering our hands the work to ...
Do we see the rough hands of the fishermen when we look at our hands do we see the scars ...
Do others see love when they look upon us do they see our Savior in the way that we live ...
When we look at our hands do we see the scars of the nails the sacrifice of Christ Do we ...
Leaving their nets the fish on the shore their families, their homes their lives to that day Going with Jesus ...
Feeling his touch the roughness of his hands the scars from the nails where he was crucified the touch of ...
Watching the fishermen the ones who followed who sought the Messiah who followed the Christ Leaving John, their nets, working ...
Hands that are given offered unto God holy witness to the love in the word Hands that lifted orphans gave ...
The hands of the shepherd the hands of the savior hands of the sacrifice dying for us The hands of ...
We think of the fishermen the first disciples their hands doing the work of the church Each of them chosen ...
Hands of the carpenter the hands of Joseph the father of Jesus raising our Savior as his own son Teaching ...
We must proclaim Jesus the Lamb of God the one foretold ancient, eternal prophesied in scripture proclaimed in the wilderness ...
Baptizing in water like John in the Jordan washing away the dust of this world repenting of our sin opening ...
Like the water of the river God's love washing over us over the body of Jesus anointed by the Spirit ...
In that appointed time while John was crying out exhorting the people to repent of their sin to be baptized ...
As he came up up out of the water God anointed Jesus commissioned him for service anointed with the Spirit ...
As Jesus rose from the water from the tomb of the river gasping for air hearing the word of God ...
The babe in the manger the child in the Temple but not until Christ was thirty did His time begin ...
While John was at the River in his role, preparing the way for our Savior at that time coming to ...
God's plan unfolding in the Jordan River Christ coming to John to be baptized in the water The prophecies coming ...
Not when he was younger only after John's preparing calling us to repentance to turn our hearts to God The ...
Not sometime earlier nothing much known of the life of Jesus until He came to the Jordan At the age ...
Wet with the water yet drenched from above God's love raining upon him showering Him with love God anointing our ...
Whether in the water on the banks of the Jordan far from the waters in our own lands In the ...
Seeing Him on the shore my Savior waiting coming toward me to submit to the water to be baptized I ...
Fulfilling the words the words of the prophecy claiming the Christ His Son here with us Emmanuel, Jesus claimed by ...
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