"Receive Ye One Another" #PoetryMonday
- Aug 17, 2015
- 2 min read
Welcome to Poetry Monday!
For years, our Pastor, Suffragan Bishop Thomas Alexander, Sr., has been writing beautiful poetry. After building a collection of original poems over the years, we have decided to use our new website as platform to display these wonderful works of art, and the talent that our beloved Pastor has been been blessed with!
Every Monday, we will post original poems from our Pastor, and also from time to time, include original poems from other talented members of Carson Christian Outreach, in our "Poetry Monday" (#poetrymonday) series! Links to these poems will be posted on our Facebook page, so be sure to "LIKE" our Facebook page for updates, or remember to visit us here, every Monday, for inspirational poems, artistically reflecting God's wonderful Word!
Our first poem post is entitled:
"Receive Ye One Another" - Romans 15:1-7
This text instructs "we that are strong"
To bear the weak's infirmities.
To help our brother, for his good,
And not our fallen selves to please.
When evil men reproached our Lord
Told in Psalms Sixty-nine and nine,
He could have well avenged Himself
But Christ this pleasure did decline.
These written words instruct us yet,
They give us faith and comfort still,
Oh may the God of patience grant
That we, like Christ, would do His will.
If we, uniting mind and voice
Out might God would glorify,
The weaker ones we must receive,
Self-merit must within us die.
And so this lofty text concludes
"Wherefore, receive ye one another".
As Christ received us in God's grace
Let us receive our weaker brother.
For fellowship to be maintained
We sometimes, although we be strong,
Must match another's slackened pace
Uniting on this journey long.
With Christ like-minded, let us think-
Perhaps the strength that's given me
Is for your good, that by God's grace
We'll both fulfill our destiny.
And when I've been the weaker one
Christ, my yoke-fellow, understood.
Patient to watch my faltering steps,
He walks beside me-for my good.
- Pastor Thomas M. Alexander, Sr.
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See you next week for another #PoetryMonday!
May God Bless and Keep You!
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