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I Serve
by JB
I Serve.
I preach
I love
I respect
I hope
I bless
I give
I prove all things
I pray
I live for Christ
I read God's Word
I deal honestly
I demonstrate and encourage integrity
I can spell
I can write truth
I can read truth
I can tell right from wrong
I can help you and anyone else do the same
I always tell the truth
I abhor lies
I walk with faith
I bless the walk of others
I give when I should receive
I lift weak arms
I hold failing knees
I dry tearful eyes
I shoulder a friend in sorrow
I touch a leprous hand
I hold a grieving friend
I shop for a legless brother
I wash dishes for a sister with arthritis
I give gifts to orphans who don't know what a gift is
I leap when my brother needs faith
I hope when my sister has lost hers
I love my wife
I honour my parents
I bless my friends with freedom in Christ
I baptise the called
I call the lonely
I protect the insecure
I shelter the downtrodden
I house the shelter-less
I warm the cold
I ask for mercy
I never ask for myself
I know grace
I preach redemption
I practise what I preach
I shovel snow
I pray for rain
I build embankments
I carry an umbrella
I harvest with joy
I cheerfully remove dirt from my nails
I soothe hands that work
I join hands that pray
I join the fires of the homeless
I pay electricity bills
I trust
I take nothing
I give everything
I know a nail's impress
I know a prison's depression
I love a field's blessing
I travel an eternal highway
I desire a better city
I look to an eternal salvation
I write of incomprehensible joy
I change car tyres
I lift another's burden
I bless the miracle of life
I tell of the hope life has
I want more than another's mediocrity
I will advocate another's cause
I will stand in an accuser's way
I will push on when others let go
I define faith
I measure faith
I give life when death seems inevitable
I take God to places of darkness
I preach light to those who have never known it
I hear widows whines
I hear man's woes
I understand a child's sobbing
I am attentive to a fool's reproach
I am secure in wisdom's house
I heal
I value freedom in Christ
I measure grace with thimbles
I give grace with shovels
I speak the language of the needy
I preach the words of abundance
I trust my vision
I lead the blind
I know light is precious
I understand light as a truth
I light paths
I lead ways
I teach directions
I forge rivers
I cross seas
I dig wells
I build bridges
I plan journeys
I don't like resting
I don't need holidays
I admire creation
I rise early
I read late
I study long
I eat words
I swallow pride
I slay steeples
I lay foundations
I build temples of the heart
I guard doors to a fold
I hate wolves
I defend sheep
I cut grass
I know a bear's paw
I face giants
I love mountains
I comb beaches
I am a fisher of men
I distrust hooks
I break rods
I mend fences
I feed lambs
I tend flocks
I know early mornings
I bask in dawns
I mellow in adversity
I repair shelters
I make Godly awnings
I cover myself with the works of friends
I dress in what I am blessed with
I stretch a budget
I cut a garment according to the cloth
I cover another in what I have cut
I spend hours understanding a friend's problems
I risk my life for a 'potential' friend of God
I paint pictures for the life weary
I draw symbols for the over-informed
I characterise miniatures for the proud
I weigh life in its balance
I hold life by its threads
I weave character by hope
I cover a field before I dress it
I trust friends who magnify my use
I magnify my friends
I encourage participation
I admire their perfection
I string a bow of faith
I stretch an arrow of hope
I release an aim for righteousness
I seek a target already blessed
I read long lists of virtues… that emanate from values – they are formed in hope, they are "WHAT" we are before a Lord and Master who knows all, judges all and justifies whom he will.
I know his call, I share his body with you, I share his blood because I too understand sacrifice.
I serve with you.