Guest Post: Daily I Sit Outside The Gate
I am deposited at this gate by my friends
As they go off to work.
What a blessing to have such friends
Since my twisted birth.
They do all they can
And will return and take me home
At the end of their day.
I lay here
At this beautiful gate
Begging
Since I cannot walk.
This beautiful gate
Is where I live.
I wish I could go in.
I hear the people who are inside.
I hear their prayers.
Does God hear mine?
Every day I am outside this gate
But I want to go in.
Blind people walk past but
They don’t hear me as I cry out.
They don’t see me
Because I am always been here.
I’m a fixture
In this mixture called life.
I try to throw my prayers over the wall
But they fall back to the ground.
Another day outside
As I lay on the ground.
It’s the 9th hour of the day
And here comes two men.
What do they have to say?
Looking at me they see me,
Listening they hear me.
Speaking they tell me to stand.
But I cannot
But now I can!
Written after reading Acts 3:1-10
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Wonderous! An old fisherman, hands callused from the hardest work, shared THE TREASURE:
But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!”
Hallelujah! for that there is NOTHING impossible with our Mighty God!
How many folks did stop and at least share the warmth of recognition and attention for a moment. Eventually greater than I comes along but for the time being, I hope to suffice with the gifts that God allotted me.
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love” – St. Teresa of Calcutta aka Mother Teresa
Perhaps you missed the main point of why I wrote this. It’s about the transforming power of Jesus Christ exercised through those who are called by his name. It is not about making the world a better pace to go to hell in. This men’s friends were doing just what you suggested but it didn’t change his condition. Too often we want to comfort people in their distress rather than deliver them into the kingdom of God. I am well aware of Mother Teresa’s work as my oldest daughter spent a summer working with her in Calcutta doing the very thing you suggest. But many she attended died being comforted but not delivered from their sins and conditions. Miraculous healing and salvation does not come from good works, that was the main point of my post. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
Keep reading…Jesus Christ IS The Word of God…in the reading of The Word comes the knowing of the Savior