Five Minute Friday [7] - I Know/You Are Mine

I know that you're clay, My dear

And that you have these many fears

But I am the mighty Potter and your Maker

I will never be your bruiser or your breaker

Take my hand and your heart and soul will be full

I know you don't understand My thoughts or My will

But I have never left you alone before

And I never will, you can be sure

I know that trust is precious, but all of yours is safe with Me

Your thoughts are anxious but it's only because you can't see

I'm building a home for you to live in, I promise you

One day your tears will dry and your pain will be through

I long for you to abide here with Me for time unending

I long to show you everything, from end to beginning

How My heart suffered and broke and wept for you

And how there is love in every single thing I do

So put your faith in me always, My child

I know that it seems it could be a long while

But I am greater than the world and this barrier of time

And your place with me is secure, for you are Mine

-t.h.

written: 20/12/19

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Shall the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?' / Isaiah 45:9, NKJV

But now, O LORD, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; and we are the work of Your hand. / Isaiah 64:8, NKJV

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD,the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary, His understanding is unsearchable. / Isaiah 40:28

A bruised reed He will not break, and smoking flax He will not quench; He will bring forth justice for truth. / Isaiah 42:3, NKJV

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A/N: Many a Christian reaches the point where they are just downright baffled at what God is doing in their lives. When it just doesn't feel like their spiritual battles are victorious or truimphant- when they start to wonder where God is in the midst of things- when they're confused about why the Lord is allowing certain things to happen- when they feel they are but a bruised reed, faltering and feeble. It's a hard, hard place to be. 

But there's only one way to hold on, and that is to trust in Him and His goodness. He is the same as He was yesterday, He is the same always. He is capable, He is mighty, He is worthy. And when darkness is threatening to suffocate, He is the light, He is the hand reaching down to pull you out of it, He is the only refuge.

Even when we can't understand and when we feel lost, He is with us then. He is molding us still. He is the only One to whom we can turn to.

Five Minute Friday [6] - Waiting on the Dawn

It's late at night or as the sun dips low in the sky

That my mind drifts to what has already gone by

The streets of this small town

I keep them beneath my ribs, in my heart

Every person I've ever let down

And those I've stuck with, from the very start

I'm someone who holds on for long

I don't ever walk away from anything easily

I cry long after the person I miss is gone

And I don't forget a face, not anybody

These tall and proud mountains that closely surround all of us

They echo lost sounds, glass dreams, and live, golden memories

I know they say the past is past, and to live in it is to distress

But every now and then I feel the past pick up, then fly by like breeze

Call it nostalgia, call it grief, call it something akin to pining

I keep all the recollections safe, in a cushioned and velvet little box

I take them out with care, I take out those dark, I take out those shining

I relive them, both the hurtful and the good, call it a paradox

But I look ahead as well, moving forward is to me no stranger

It's only that it's nice to go back once in a short while

Sometimes I want to stay, sometimes I want to dwell there longer

But whatever is ahead, whether it's joy or heavy trial

I know I cannot pause time, I know I can't give up or slow down

So I keep up with the changes, these turns, this frightening depth

Still all the while keeping what is no more in my arms, holding on

And facing the giants, taking small steps, taking deep breaths

And

Waiting on the dawn

-t.h.
written: 05/12/19

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A/N: Okay, this one also took longer than five minutes. Maybe ten minutes in total, not including the tiny smidge of editing that had to go into it? Haha :)

May you have a blessed day, wherever you are and whatever memories or thoughts continuously run through your mind.