Tune: Albano
('Once, only once, and once for all')
2 Corinthians 4 v.16-18
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Let us not faint and not lose heart
Nor from the pathway start
Knowing our outward form decay
Inward [is] renewed each day
For compare this, our affliction
Though it escapes no one
'Tis light and 'tis for a moment
Though it be troubles sent
For this does work for us a far
Better thing, none can mar
Work a far more exceeding weight
[Of] Eternal glory great
While looking not at the things seen
That are to senses keen
But looking at things here not seen
That are not small or mean
For the things seen are temporal
They are of this world all
But the things not seen eternal
Are, so we hear God's call
His call, not look on outward things
The things time and tide brings
But to eternal, unseen look
We not by Him forsook
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Author:
orchidee (
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- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8686. First in short 'Motivation' series. Sorry about long-winded title!
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Of course, it's easy to say are troubles are 'light' if we're not experiencing many - or any! Yet St Paul, who wrote the Scripture verses, had his share of troubles too.
Troubles come to us all and we need to believe that we will get over them with the help of the Lord but sometimes it is so hard.
Thanks Gold. Thankfully St Paul shared in troubles too, so he doesn't lecture us fellow human beings. Meanwhile - your outward appearance worn out? We're millions of years old by now. Well I am anyway, and you were there in 1066 too! lol.
Orchi,
So true...
We’re all faced with Troubles!
Our faith and beliefs will get us through the troubled times in our lives!
As my dad would say, “You just have to believe”! Amen to that!
~Laura~
Thanks Laura. I wish I wouldn't add to the troubles by singing! heehee.
You can sing for me anytime! Those troubles I like! 😉
Meooowwwooo! Ya hear me sing?! lol.
All the way across the ocean 🌊😂
UNCLE STEVE ~ Thanks for sharing ! The piano was a bit LES DAWSON ! 2 Corinthians 4 a great & encouraging Chapter. V 7 We have this treasure in jars of clay ~ that the excellence of the POWER may be GOD's prerogative & not ours ~ AMEN ! Yours BRIAN & ANGELA 😉😉 There is still room for YOUR HAIKU on OUR FUSION ~ please add ~ Yours B & A
Thanks B&A.
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