‘…This is My name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.’—Exodus 3:13-15
Punishments of Me
You† give, You† take away
I've seen the dark of night
I've seen the brightest of Your† light
I've written it all―outright
including this plea―wrong or right
You've† taken me down
turn me up-side-down
round and round
I plea with Job in sound
how much more 'til I'm found
‒in the complete of bound
I'm doing the work
my body withering in hurt
my heart, with death, does flirt
my eyes filled with dirt
how much longer will my legs‒
vertical―surf
You† give, You† take away
‒a constant revolving sway
I pray every day
sometimes, struggling with faith
holding on, happiness‒
one day, You'll† pay
maybe, that day‒
I finally finish these words in say
how much longer, Lord†‒
how many more days must I wait
‒too much time in weigh
passed me by
so much gone away
so much anger said
without anything given in brave
hear my words, Lord†‒
please return my grateful, humble way
please return a home‒
where peace remains in stay
‒I'm just asking today
for You† to hear my say
(January 10, 2021)
God the ‘I Am’—Moses said to God, ‘Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name? Then what shall I tell them?’ God said to Moses, ‘I AM who I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.” God also said to Moses, ‘Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.’—Exodus 3:13-15
‘Punishments of Me’ was written July 10, 2017. I was struggling. I had a job to do for the Lord, I always knew it, and it had been years since the promise ‘Write and they will come.’ They didn’t come. They still haven’t come. But then I know the truth of my work now. This work isn’t for this generation. It is for the future. This generation, I’m told, has failed.
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