Poetry Instructs Us

There are many words in the Holy Bible that are like poetry in motion. While they calm the spirit, they also powerfully flow through our being to speak truth for living. I found such words in my reading this morning:

13Mercy kissed me, even though I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor of believers, and a scorner of what turned out to be true. I was ignorant and didn’t know what I was doing. 14I was flooded with such incredible grace, like a river overflowing its banks,  until I was full of faith and love for Jesus, the Anointed One! 1 Timothy 1:13-14 (TPT)

For the above passage I only highlighted certain phrases that were like a beautiful melody to my soul. Yet those same words acknowledged the power of the resurrection – mercy, grace flooding to overflowing faith.

These words though lovely, are not casual. They are the essence of what came from Calvary’s cross. They speak to the precious gifts we received and do receive. For we are saved and are being saved. We are delivered and are being delivered. Like the flowing river, our souls are in constant change as the Holy Spirit washes away the remnants of worldly influence and the actions predicated on those influences.

Thus we can rejoice over the finished work and also be involved in the present work.

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 2 Corinthians 4:10 (KJV)

Maria