A Collection of Short Poems by Martha Snell Nicholson

 

Here is a collection of short poems by Martha Snell Nicholson over at The Home Maker's Corner.

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Evening Song - I'd Rather Have Jesus

 
Psalm 37:16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. 

Psalm 118:8-9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. 

Proverbs 15:16 Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith. 

James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 

1 John 2:15-17 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 

The Thousand Word Project - The Lengthening Winter Days

 

More photos from February 2021.

Word of the Day - Late

 

Psalm 127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late,
to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

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Evening Song - In the Sweet By and By

Hebrews 12:22-24 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. 

John 14:2-3 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 

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Texas Memories - Kitty In the Snow

Snickerdoodle

Photos from the February 2021 snow storms. 

FREE Scripture Graphic - Be of Good Cheer

 
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The Heavenly Guest - A Poem by Annie Johnson Flint

 

The Heavenly Guest

If you open the door and let Christ in
He will come as a courteous guest;
He will take the space that you give Him
And will leave you all the rest;
If you crowd Him out of your largest room
And give Him a corner small,
If you scarcely remember that He is there
And speak of Him not at all.

Ah, then He may grieve when He sees your mind
By the cares of the world possessed,
When your feet have strayed and you soul is faint
And your heart by grief opprest;
But He cannot comfort and lift and guide
And help as He longs to do –
Where He sits apart in your House of Life –
For you have not asked Him to.

Oh, make Him the Master of all you have,
The Lord of your heart and soul,
Yield all yourself for His dwelling place
And let Him take the whole;
He will do with you, He will work for you,
He will reign in your life alone,
And you’ll find the blessing that you have missed
And the joys you have never known.

- Annie Johnson Flint -

Revelation 3:19-20 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 

Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

Evening Song - As A Volunteer

2 Timothy 2:3-4 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 

1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. 

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Texas Memories - A Berry Cold Day

Ice Storm

Sometimes
the ice drip,

drip,

drips

off the trees;

Encasing berries,
Length--en--ing     Lea--ves,

Making          

                         jagged teeth
on              
                 railings
and              
             eaves.

Mary E. Stephens

Nandina
or Heavenly Bamboo

These photographs were taken during the severe winter storms we had in central Texas in February of 2021.

Short Thoughts - You Are A Keeper to God

In this life some things are "keepers" and some things are not. We run across things all the time that are not worth keeping in this cluttered world. But to the Lord, all those who are born again into His family are keepers. Every one. No exceptions. If you are His child by faith in Jesus Christ, He will no more disinherit you than he would the Lord Jesus Himself. 

It's too easy to forget that our whole, our entire, our finished, our complete salvation is all in and through and because of Jesus Christ. If He can't lose His relationship to God the Father - silly thought, right?  - then we can't either. 

Colossians 2:9-15  For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

If Jesus could stop being God (He can't) you could stop being saved. So, rest assured. He intends to keep you.

1 Peter 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 

The Double Clasp

The Saviour's hand - how close its hold,

That none can loosen, none can break.

No powers of heaven or earth or hell

That loving clasp can ever shake.

And over Jesus' wounded hand

The Father's hand of strength is laid,

Omnipotent to save and keep;

Thus is our surety surer made.

So, one beneath and one above,

Father and Son their hands unite.

How safe, how safe the ransomed are

Within that clasp of tender might!

Annie Johnson Flint

John 10:27-30 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one. 

Evening Song - He Put A New Song In My Heart

Psalm 149:1 Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints. 

Psalm 40:1-3 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. 

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The Thousand Word Project - Little Stripes

 

Carnations

Are There No Years In Heaven?

 

Isaiah 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. 

Revelation 10:5-6 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: 

Are There No Years In Heaven?

Are there no years in Heaven?

No change of day and night?

No rolling seasons’ varied hues

To mark time’s onward flight?

No: Time itself must fade,

And New Years’ Days shall cease,

When all God’s children meet on high,

To hail the Prince of Peace.

His realm is endless rest,

And perfect holiness!

No cares shall cloud, no sorrow dim

That home of loveliness.

In His great name we raise

Our New Year’s song to Heaven;

To praise our Father’s boundless love,

And ask to be forgiven.

Savior, be Thou our trust,

Our daily, hourly friend;

Unite our hearts in love to Thee—

The love which knows no end.

So may our lives on earth

Made happy by Thy grace,

Be foretastes of a fairer home—

A heavenly dwelling place.

- By Philip Phillips, 1868

Deuteronomy 33:27 The eternal God is thy refuge,

and underneath are the everlasting arms...

An Encouraging Sermon and Amazing Grace

A blessed New Year to those who love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.

A very good reminder to start the New Year. 

Malachi 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

   

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Today also marks the 250th anniversary of John Newton first presenting the hymn "Amazing Grace" to his congregation when he preached on 1 Chronicles 17:16-17. 

Amazing Grace

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me!

I once was lost, but now am found;

Was blind, but now I see.

’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,

And grace my fears relieved;

How precious did that grace appear

The hour I first believed!

Through many dangers, toils and snares,

I have already come;

’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,

And grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promised good to me,

His Word my hope secures;

He will my shield and portion be,

As long as life endures.

Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,

And mortal life shall cease,

I shall possess, within the veil,

A life of joy and peace.

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,

The sun forbear to shine;

But God, who called me here below,

Will be forever mine.

When we’ve been there ten thousand years,

Bright shining as the sun,

We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise

Than when we’d first begun.

John Newton