Arise & Shine

Welcome to Day 2 of Part 5‘s Chapter 1 of Arise and Shine. Today, Anna is bringing forward the second free will offering of goatskin (no outward attraction).

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Peace

Caught 
Between two w/Words
The religion 
I know

And the Son 
Of God
I hear 
Beckoning.

I wrestle 
With the Alpha
And Omega 
Who asks me
To surrender

The letter of the Law  
I know
For the Living Word's 
Searching  
And knowing.

But what can I do 
But open the door
To my Lord's knocking
To sup with Him?

Where can I go
But to the only One
Who has the Word
Of life?

So I surrender 
My known 
To be known
Fully and wholly 

By the only 
True God
Who stills 
My heart
To know

The world
And all who dwell
Therein are
His.

I yield to my King
The cup of suffering 
To my lips now take 
And drink

In communion
The Living Word 
To my Father 
In thanksgiving lifting

I break 
The bread 
And take 
Eat.

I fill my heart
With the 
Law fulfilled 
Who calls for me

To join Him
In His suffering
To know Him
In His death and resurrection.

My sovereign God 
Who walks me 
To the tomb
To show me what 
He already sees:

"Unwrap him now
And let him loose"
I hear my Savior
Calling.

His work 
Of surrender 
Just invites me 
Into

More.

More JOY 
Before us laid
Than we could ever 
Think of, ask for
Or imagine.

For, Christ's blood 
Was shed
For this:

To reconcile
All things to Him
Whether on earth
Or heaven

To make

Peace.

⁵ Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,⁶ who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,⁷ but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Philippians 2: 5 – 8 (ESV)

Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”

John 13:8 (ESV)

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

John 15:1-3 (ESV)