I try to be faithful
to the teachings of Christ,
seeking His grace
in my daily life
I strain forward
against the bit of my resistance,
seeking to control
when I should be led
I take His yoke
raising it to my shoulders,
actually lowering it upon me
to feel it around my neck
Only then am I able, without control,
to walk with my Savior,
journeying with my brother
in the way that leads to life
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edited November 4, 2014
Straining Forward – v3
(editing version 2)
Edited March 16, 2013
“Straining Forward – v2”
March 16, 2013
Philippians 3:4b-14
Upper Room Disciplines for 2013
March 11, 2013 to March 17, 2013
“Looking Back, Going Forward”
by K. Cherie Jones
for March 14, 2013
read March 16, 2013
&
Philippians 3
90 day New Testament
Bible Study
read August 23, 2011
&
poem, “Straining Forward”
June 18, 2010
Philippians 3:14
Philippians 3:12-14
&
Day 269, “Pressing On”, in
“Daily Mediations: On
Golden Texts of the Bible”,
by Henry Gariepy
read June 18, 2010
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