These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Made Right with God

(Original Verse)
"For God so loved the world,
that he gave His Only Begotten son,
that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting life."
(John 3:16, KJV)

"For God so loved the world he made,
He gave His Only Son to save,
that hope in Him now fully laid
would negate death, give life to slave."

For God Alone has pow'r to love
the world in weakness cannot lift
a finger up to save or move
to know a moment of His Gift.

For who believeth Him, who came
to live and die as a Substitute?
The belief of man is quite the same
as a snake that slithers 'neath his boot.

All hope we place on the coming Son
is giv'n to each from the One, Who sent
His Dearest Love, redemption's done,
and hearts are changed, new way is bent.

Salvation's wholly from The Lord
in resurrection from the dead.
He gives new life through the living Word,
remaking hearts for whom He bled.

We each are cold, unfeeling, lost,
no heart for God, our spirits' dead.
The joules of Grace will thaw the frost
infusing new life with words now read.

The chosen one may choose the Christ
by the gift of sight, that newly sees.
Eternal life by Blood-paid Price.
The one once dead, alive He frees.

The perfect life by Aslan's song
was broken full by Jadis' choice.
On the stony table right broke wrong
when the deepest magic heard His Voice.

Oh, hear His Voice when He gives ear!
Fall full upon His pier-ced feet!
Redeeming Love by God's Hands clear
will save the soul, whose heart-door greets
the knocking, pleading, calling Dear
Whose beaten, brui-sed Body meets
the chasm 'tween all wretched fear
and Father, Who all Justice metes.

Oh, weary soul, the Savior knows
thy weakness and desire to come,
but naught can come in sadness throes,
whose works are meager in the sum.

Thy power to save is not at all.
Thy believing hope is weakness seen.
Thy penitence and pleading call
is awful black and never green.

The key to Heaven is the Blood.
God glories in the Son, Who gave
His All restoring peaceful mood
to Father's Justice o'er the grave.

I cannot rest in my own faith,
nor in my good by my own hand.
Let me not swim, nor myself bathe
in the pool of blood, where the cross did stand.

In giving up. I'm fully whole.
For one can't sink in the Dead Sea's salt,
nor in Christ's Blood the strive-less soul,
whose Savior ne'er can see his fault.

I give myself not faithful ounce
by which I trust His Wondrous Grace.
The faith by which I do pronounce
my trust in Him is by Him placed.

My dead heart cannot see Him right.
My dead heart cannot see at all.
My dead heart lies in gurney's plight,
transported by the Surgeon's Call.

"I'll take your stony heart, Dear One.
My scalpel fears not for its crust.
The gnarly sinews when I'm done
are vanquished and impeached as just.

"A fleshy heart within your chest
and spirit new I'll overwhelm.
You'll enter in my peaceful rest
and serve with me throughout my realm.

"I choose to save, whom I will save.
I need no help from human hands,
but when my presence you newly crave,
I'll welcome thankful works and plans.

"I'll tune your heart to my true note,
that when you play you need not ask,
'Is this my will or what God wrote?'
We both agree about this task."

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(Original Verse)
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

"Not of works, lest any man should boast.

"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." (Ephesians 2:8-10, KJV)

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(Original Verse)
"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

"And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them." (Ezekiel 36:26-27, KJV)

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(Original Verse)
"There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

"For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his." (Hebrews 4:9, KJV)

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(Original Verse)
"For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." (Philippians 2:13, KJV)

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by Jay O'Toole
on October 7th, 2019