Thursday, May 24, 2012

Slipping into Slackness


“And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?” (Joshua 18:3).  Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:  so shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth; and thy want as an armed man” (Proverbs 24:33,34). 

Our poverty is never planned;
It comes more like a thief.
Our faith is like a promised land;
Our slackness, unbelief.

As Joshua questioned Israel
When much land yet remained,
The question falls to us as well
When faith in us has waned.

Should not our borders be enlarged
In terms of faith in action?
O must we be with slackness charged
Because of vain distraction?

O help us, Lord, to not be slack,
But rather to prevail,
As You supply the strength we lack
With grace that cannot fail.

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