By Jane Phinney
May 29, 2019
You were in need of hope
You called to Me
I answered you
I set you free
My answer came
Through Life within
My sacrifice made
To free from sin
I saw your heart
I carried your sorrow
The Life I birthed
Brought strength for tomorrow
My gift to you
A precious seed
An answered prayer
A warrior indeed!
A sign of hope
Not one promise failed
A reminder to you
My Truth prevailed
You called him Joshua
I called him Son
I brought him home
A victory won
He served with courage
With wisdom, with might
He ran his race well
He finished the fight.
(Joshua 23:14; *subtitle from the movie
Joshua
)
I wrote this poem after the loss of our first grandbaby. The Lord reminded me that not only was the Biblical Joshua a leader, victorious in battle for God’s people, but he has also been referred to as a symbolic Christ-type figure. At the time of our loss, I had no plan to write anything. But the poem just “came” quickly, in a moment. My grief was interwoven with the legacy of Joshua’s 23 victories in battle, and with the provision of our ultimate victory in the Lord Jesus Christ. HE IS HOPE.
©2019 by Jane M Phinney;
My Heart Undressed;
Sterling, KS
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