Touched By Calvary
How often do the words you speak become your worst worn friend
How often do the ones you love feel they cannot defend
Some thing that you have spoken in your haste to make reply
That's sure to chase and haunt you up until the day you die
How often have you spoken words that take a life away
That drives them from your presence for the painful things you say
Those thoughtless words of envy that engender only strife
That offer nothing good to those who struggle through this life
Who have no course or compass no relationship with God
No one to help them find their way along the path they trod
And often may offend you by the words that they might speak
As evidence of emptiness along the path they seek
Or maybe in their haste to be what they assume is best
Their words and actions may become a secret hidden test
That God may use to prove to you how much you need to grow
How much you need to turn to Him you sometimes claim to know
But in your haste to face the world each morning as you rise
You fail to stop and take the time to look within the eyes
Of Him Who's waiting for you where you used to hit your knees
Pursuing in your brokenness the only One Who sees
The root of life within you from your future to you past
That bears your every burden as in faith on Him you cast
Yourself as you feel helpless like some others that you meet
Who likewise need to know the love you found at Jesus' feet
But how are they to know His love how can they understand
The path that God has laid for them that He had always planned
If not by what they see in you and by the words you speak
That share with them the Strength you find when you are feeling weak
And how can they find heaven and the gifts God has to share
If what they see and hear from you does not reveal His care
That sees beyond their brokenness to something bright and new
That God desires to make of them the way He did with you
So next time that you start to speak may I suggest instead
Of speaking words that you'll regret and wish you never said
You speak the words God gives to you to help another see
The power of love can still be found when touched by Calvary
James 1:26; 3:1-18; Jeremiah 1:9