Tune: Heinlein
('Forty days and forty nights')
Luke 4 v.1-4 & v.14
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Jesus by the spirit led
To the desert, He no bread
Nor other earthly food there
In wilderness He did share
Forty days and forty nights
No tasty foods or delights
But likely did drink water
Though hunger pains they did stir
The devil did tempt Him there
It is too much for to bear
If the Son of God you be
Turn these stones here to bread, see
But Jesus He did reply
Man not live by this supply
Shall not live by bread alone
But by each word of God known
Each word that does sure proceed
From mouth of God, each word heed
He returned from desert filled
With power, He did not yield
Not yield to the evil one
But empowered, He the Son
In the Spirit, temptations
Did overcome, e'en each one
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: March 1st, 2020 03:33
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 7.7.7.7. metre on a Lenten season theme. What do you think (verse 2)? It does not say in the Bible verses that Jesus did NOT drink for 40 days and nights, only that He did not eat. I added that in after reading a piece on it. Where water in the desert?
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Comments1
We had that hymn in church yesterday!
Please don't be tempted to sing during this period of lent Orchi.
Andy
Thanks Gold. I should give up singing for 40 days then! But then they say - why stop? give it up for ever. Doh!
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