Discouragement

Just think about going to church,

And my body starts to become heavy.

My heart starts discouraging,

There is no strength for walking.

I do not need to go to that place,

Right here, I can pray.

I do even not need to leave here,

One word, I can hear.

God understands my way,

I talk about Him every day.

At any moment, I cannot forget,

Even being just for habit,

The name of God, I will say.

It is not good to live so sloppily,

Then, there is space for sin.

We must strive for the Lord,

There is a long, He gave us his love.

Christ died for all of us,

Jesus suffered on the cross.

He spared no effort to save us,

We must always give thanks and praise.

This poem is part of the book Christian Poetry Volume III.

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Flawed Plans

There are many things we want to plan,

Soon, we think to go, to make and gain.

We think that we know everything,

We suppose we can conquer all things.

 

It seems that everything will be easy,

We will gain too much until we build a palace.

We want to have everything,

Great empires, we want to build.

 

But life does not work like that,

Our plans will always be flawed.

Because we are temporary in this world.

We cannot stay planning,

We do not know if our time is ending.

 

To God, we should pray:

“Lord, teach me the perfect way.”

If God blesses us,

We can think about this or that.

And with his permission, we will get it.

 

The Lord can do everything,

A certainty rises from an uncertainty,

He makes us grow like a good fruit tree,

Under his will, we always will be.

 

For this to happen,

All of us must submit to Him.

And stop believing we have the power to do something,

We are weak, and being alone, we cannot do anything.

This poem is part of the book Christian Poetry Volume II.

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The Rich Man and the Poor Man

We wake up and see many wrong things,

There are sins in everything.

They forgot That One who was crucified for us.

They only want to gain more power.

 

In another world, power has no value.

Try to buy the devil!

He will laugh a lot at you, and he will say:

“You had the chance to regret your ways,

But you preferred to seek power.”

 

At that time, it will be late,

Money, you no longer appreciate it.

You only have weeping and teeth-gnashing.

In your whole life,

Does money make you satisfied?

 

You see the man you have humiliated,

He has peace with God in heaven.

In his place, you would like to be.

In life, it was the contrary, what irony!

The poor man would like to be rich.

In death, the rich man wants to be saved.

Keep calm, everyone is dead.

The humble one went to God.

Only the punishment for sins is what you have.

This poem is part of the book Christian Poetry Volume I.

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New Conversion

It is marvelous at the beginning of the conversion,

The person has a chance for a new life and direction.

They will go through very surprising moments,

For many things, their sight will be different.

Just at the beginning of this beautiful conversion,

Things appear to touch and shake their emotions.

Most of the time, they are not helpful things,

They are things disturbing their faith and beliefs.

The newly converted one begins to be confronted,

Their old sins are offered.

They are willing and want to do it,

But now they know a transgression will be committed.

And other difficulties continue coming on,

People discrediting the path they are going on.

They say their conversion is madness,

And that following the Lord, nothing changes.

There are too many temptations trying to mislead,

To fortify themselves, God’s help, they will need.

With the Lord’s help, everything will be supported,

Their path of faith in God will never be altered.

This poem is part of the book Christian Poetry Volume V.

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