Enduring to the End

orchidee



Tune: Herongate

('It is a thing most wonderful')

Hosea 6 v.4

For St Philip & St James Day - May 1.

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Is our love like a morning mist

Which lasts a while, yet not persist?

Love for our Lord, who His life gave

In His love, sinners for to save

 

Philip and James, apostles they

Followed Christ daily in His way

He Himself the way, the world's Light

Giving to us spiritual sight

 

Will we stay with Him, He our Friend

Who loved and cared until the end

Then died and rose again, loves still

Ever doing His Father's will

 

They who unto the end endure

Shall be saved, this be true for sure

Lord, inspire us afresh that we

Follow, e'en if small our spark be

 

 

  • Author: orchidee (Offline Offline)
  • Published: May 1st, 2024 02:37
  • Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.8.8.8. inspired by an early morning mist.
  • Category: Spiritual
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  • Neville



    I kinda get this .. but then I've got a thing about mist

    • orchidee

      Thanks N. I missed the bus. is that the same thing?! lol.

    • 2781

      Is it the fire we seek?

      • orchidee

        Thanks 2. There's the old Salvation Army hymn: 'Send the fire'. That's a bit of the Chorus of 'Thou Christ, of cleansing, burning flame''

        • 2781

          I was listening intently to one of those modern day "prophets.'
          He said the church has to be like the days of acts and bring down fire, like Elijah.
          Sound familiar?

        • Doggerel Dave


          It’s all there, orchi:
          Stanza the first – ‘love like a morning mist’
          Stanza the second – ‘spiritual sight’
          Stanza the third – ‘cared until the end’
          Stanza the fourth and final – ‘They who unto the end endure Shall be saved…

          So all you gotta do is hang in there. KP will be amply rewarded in her own inimitable way, and you have a clear shot at the Pearly Gates…..

          • orchidee

            Thanks Dave. You hanging on there too?!
            I was gonna endure to the end as The Birdman, but fell off a cliff! lol.

            • Doggerel Dave

              That's because you were only hanging on - you didn't hang in.

            • Goldfinch60

              Good one Orchi

              • orchidee

                Thanks Gold.



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