Wit and Wisdom

So Walk

I try hard to live up to my reputation,

Cuz’ I know they watch me;

Watch each step I take, each thing I do.

They hold me accountable
to my actions and words.

So then, I will try my best to walk.

To walk my life where people will remember

Me as only me.

To walk in love sacrificing for others,

Letting them know I care.
(2 John 1:6)

To walk in the light;

To want what’s right and show people

I’ve got something different.
(1 John 1:7)

To walk circumspectly;

Living in wisdom, cautiously,

Controlled by the Holy Spirit.
(Eph. 5:15)

To walk confident in order to please Him,

For I will be held accountable.
(Col. 1:10)

To walk in freedom,

Knowing I have been set free and I’m not

burdened by sin through Him.
(Gal. 5:1)

To walk humble, for He must become greater;

I must become less (John 3:30)

Allowing others to be better than me.
(Phil. 2:3)

To walk in obedience,

Following His every command and the commands

Of my parents, teachers, and leaders.
(1 John 2:3)

To walk in honesty, telling the truth

And avoiding gossip. (Eph. 4:15)

If I long to walk in these ways,
I’m going to have to run in order to catch up
with my mistakes.
Mistakes that have built
a blocking wall in my life.

Strict training and perseverance are ahead of me.

I’m going to perceive the challenge.

So walk!

~ Kristine Blum, GCC teen

Count Your Blessings

If you woke up this morning with more
health than illness, you are more blessed
than the million who won’t survive the week.

If you have never experienced the danger of
battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the
agony of torture or the pangs of starvation,
you are ahead of 20 million people around
the world.

If you attend church meeting without
harassment, arrest, torture, or death, you
are more blessed than almost three billion
people in the world.

If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes
on your back, a roof over your head and a
place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of
this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your
wallet, and spare change in a dish
someplace, you are among the top 8% of
the world’s wealthy.

If your parents are still married and alive,
you are very rare, especially in the United
States.

If you hold up your head with a smile on
your face and are truly thankful, you are
blessed because the majority can, but most
do not.

If you can hold someone’s hand, hug them
or even touch them on the shoulder, you are
blessed because you can offer God’s
healing touch.

If you can read this message you are more
blessed than over two billion people in the
world that cannot read anything at all.

You are so blessed in ways you may never
even know.

IT WAS LOVE

It was love that sent
my Savior

To this earth for you
and me

It was love that
healed the leper

And that made the
blind man see

It was love that sent
my Savior

To the cross of
Calvary

It was love, the love
of Jesus

Oh what price He
paid for me.

It was love that fed
five thousand

It was love that
calmed the sea

It was love that
healed the lame man

It was love that set
me free

It was love that sent
my Savior

To the cross of
Calvary

With His precious
blood He showed me

What great love He
had for me.

- Joyce Bedora

Wit and Wisdom

HAVE YOU?

Have you walked a few steps with Jesus,

Down the Calvary Road?

Have you stooped to lighten His burden,

To lighten His heavy load?

Have you gone to the garden with Jesus

To patiently watch and pray?

Or were you just too busy

You’ll do it some other day?

Have you gone to the courtyard with Peter

As he denies Christ thrice?

Have you felt a little guilty

For the times that you denied Christ?

Have you followed the crowd to the Judgment Hall

Where Jesus innocently stands?

Have you cried don’t crucify Jesus

Or joined the others throughout the land?

Have you followed the Roman Soldiers

To the Common Hall?

Then watched them dress Jesus as a King

So they could have a ball?

Have you seen them bow before Jesus

As they mockingly smote Him on the head?

Were you on the side of Jesus

Or the Roman Soldiers instead?

Have you stopped, as the Roman Soldiers

Nailed Jesus to the Cross?

Have you thought of this as a celebration

Or as the world’s greatest loss?

Have you stopped to listen to Jesus

As He looked up to Heaven and cried

“My Father, why have You forsaken Me?”

Just before He died.

Have you asked why did Christ suffer

And die upon that tree?

It was God’s plan for our salvation

Now we can all clearly see.

God sent His perfect, guiltless Son,

To die for you and me.

To give us all salvation, and life eternally.

So have you asked this Jesus

To cleanse your heart from sin?

Have you invited Him to dwell eternally within?

Have you? Please do.

- Joyce Bedora