TITLE: Consider His Pain By Darlene Casino 04/12/06 |
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on how our pain must be magnified in HIM and yet HE must
withhold our relief until the last one enters in.....
CONSIDER HIS PAIN
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THE PAIN,
OUR FATHER HAS LONG ENDURED-
THE GRIEF THAT HIS HEART HAS KNOWN
SEEING THE TEARS HE HAS STORED?
HAS THE THOUGHT OCCURRED TO YOU,
THE ACHE IN THE FATHER’S HEART-
WATCHING CHILDREN GO ASTRAY
SEEING HIS CHURCH TORN APART?
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THE PAIN,
HE FEELS WHEN WAR HAS ERUPTED-
AS THE DEATH AND MAIMING GROWS
SOCIOTY BECOMES CORRUPTED?
CHILDREN ARE BATTERED AND BRUISED,
AND GANGS FIGHT IN THE STREET-
WITH LEADERS PLEASING THEMSELVES
CRIMINALS THEIR CRIMES REPEAT.
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED HIS PAIN,
KNOWING HE COULD END IT ALL-
THE WAR, CORRUPTION, DISEASE
THAT’S RESULTING FROM THE FALL?
IN A SINGLE BEAT OF THE HEART,
HIS WORD SENT OUT IN POWER-
ALL THIS SUFFERING COULD END
ALL HIS FOES WOULD COWER.
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED HIS PAIN,
AS HE WAITS HOLDING HIS MIGHT-
KNOWING PEOPLE ARE HURTING
WATCHING THEIR COURAGE TAKE FLIGHT?
HE’S WILLING TO BEAR THE PAIN,
BEAR THE PAIN OF ALL OUR SIN-
TILL HIS CHURCH IS COMPLETED
UNTIL THE LAST SOUL IS IN.
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