These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

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The chosen ones, who serve the Lord
have often had to wait
to see the promise of His Word.
It seems so awfully late.

For Abraham was past his prime
when Isaac came to be
his son redeemed in joy sublime.
The promised one was he.

And Moses lost his name to stand
'pon burning sands alone,
until the day God's Flame, unfanned,
bid him to Pharoah's throne.

God's Only Son spent many days
in Joseph's shop, sore-caked
by sweat, and dust to money raise
with the family's needs at stake.

What can we say? The Lord of all
in stark obscurity
worked just like us, until His call
to serve us openly.

"He grew up as a tender plant,
a root out of dry ground.
His beauty was of men just scant.
We looked, but no looks abound."

"He was despised, of men not loved,
a man so sad, quite knowing grief.
We hid our faces from God's Dove.
He was despised without relief."

"Our griefs so surely He hath borne.
Our sorrows He hath carried, full,
that He was stricken, stripped, and shorn,
by God was beaten, afflicted cruel."

"For our transgressions, wounds He knew.
It was our sins made His back striped.
The whippings of our peace tore through
His shredded skin. Our debts He wiped."

Perspective's Wisdom, newly made,
I see that Time is on His side.
My task, His Will to be obeyed.
His gift, to save me from all pride.

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"2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,
and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness;
and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

"3 He is despised and rejected of men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:
and we hid as it were our faces from him;
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

"4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:
yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

"5 But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his stripes we are healed."

(Isaiah 53:2-5, KJV)

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"One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after;
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion:
in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me;
he shall set me up upon a rock.

And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me:
therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy;
I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD."
(Psalm 27:4-6, KJV)

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The deepest thing within my heart,
the thing I'll always seek to find,
is that the Lord will from the start
permit me live with Him so kind.

I'd dwell in the House of the Lord, today,
to behold His Beauty, and to ask,
"May I just worship, daily say,
Your Grace is giv'n beyond my task."

For in great trouble's wearisome time
He hides me in His safe, safe place.
The secret of His tent sublime
He hides me on a rock apace.

And now my head on high is lift
above my foes, who 'round me stand.
My joy is offered for His Gift.
I sing great praises for His Plan.

He came to save my sinful soul,
so wretched in my stains and dross.
The third day stood to make me whole,
enforcing payment on His cross.

His Father gave me as a gift
to His Lone Son, a trophy rare.
Forever debt and payment shift
would make me His without a care.
(John 6:37, KJV)

"Fear thou not; for I am with thee:
be not dismayed; for I am thy God:
I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee;
yea, I will uphold thee
with the right hand of my righteousness."
(Isaiah 41:10, KJV)

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