My Lamp Ready – v2

I wish I could say
that I could claim it, proclaiming
boldly, with confidence,
that my heart was prepared
my lamp ready, filled, burning
for the return of my Master
untroubled by the world
at peace ever in my spirit
anxiously waiting, ready
awake in that night

His coming in secret
when this shall be
in God’s timing alone
unknown to you and me; yet
we must be faithful
to see eternity, to be with our Master
following the path of our Savior
work to be done, here, now
to prepare for our Master
when our work here is done


edited July 13, 2012
August 8, 2010
“My Lamp Ready”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-lamp-ready.html
Luke 12:32-40
Luke 8:1
and
http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/description.asp?item_id=645177&whichBarItem=excerpt&category=&sub_category=
Upper Room Disciplines for 2010
for August 2, 2010 to August 8, 2010,
“What God Requires”
by Mark Price
for August 8, 2010,
read August 8, 2010

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