26 Now, as I said
concerning faith -- that it was not a perfect knowledge -- even so it is with
my words. Ye cannot know of their surety at first, unto perfection, any more
than faith is a perfect knowledge.
27 But behold, if ye
will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and
exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to
believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye
can give place for a portion of my words.
Lazarus Heart?
1/15/09
My heart lies cold -
its life spent out
On hope for home and
kin
So freely seen in
neighbor lives,
So many gathered in.
Long coveted I what
is not so
In Promise' timeless
face
Till empty strength
and empty time
Forfeit this solo
race.
Now body shall live
though heart has died,
Though no-one sees
to mourn
'Less Lazarus heart
the Lord shall raise -
Should thus His will
be borne.
Even when you have
no strength left and have to let go, you can remember that the Lord can raise
anything from death - be it hope, love, life, peace, safety, understanding.
We are taught that
if we can only desire to believe, that it is enough for the Lord to work with.
So too, I believe, can He work with what we see as our failures in life -
strength, family, work, health. He can make them all find life again. So even
when we lose hope, we can remember Lazarus and hope again.
