What are You Thinking About?

[Christsfreeservant]

When you think about tomorrow,
What does it bring to mind?
Are you hopeful? Anxious? Fearful
Of what you might now find?

Do you dread what might be coming
In days which lie ahead?
Are you hopeful that tomorrow
Will bring what’s good, instead?

Must it be one or the other?
All bad or fully good?
Is it possible tomorrow
For some misunderstood?

Well we shouldn’t now be fearful
Of what the next day brings.
But don’t ignore reality.
Give Jesus everything.

In the Scriptures we are promised
That some days will be bad.
Even though we follow Jesus,
Some days they will be sad.

We are told keep our eyes focused
On Jesus, Savior, King.
But be watching now, with wisdom,
For liars, up they spring.

So keep eyes and ears now open.
Don’t let the truth escape.
And be testing what you’re hearing,
So you not fall for fake.

Do not fear what is yet coming,
But be now so aware,
So that you’re prepared to follow
Your Lord now anywhere.

An Original Work / April 18, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

[Maori Aussie]

I have lost my treasured Teacher.
I thought he might have been God's Messiah?
But now; he is dead. Very dead!
And "a dead Messiah, is a failed Messiah".
But Jesus said that he "would rise from the dead"?????
God only knows!
And I have lost my treasured Teacher.

 

[Christsfreeservant]

I have lost my treasured Teacher.
I thought he might have been God's Messiah?
But now; he is dead. Very dead!
And "a dead Messiah, is a failed Messiah".
But Jesus said that he "would rise from the dead"?????
God only knows!
And I have lost my treasured Teacher.

I don't understand the meaning of what you wrote, sorry. Could you explain this more fully, please?

 

[Christsfreeservant]

I have lost my treasured Teacher.
I thought he might have been God's Messiah?
But now; he is dead. Very dead!
And "a dead Messiah, is a failed Messiah".
But Jesus said that he "would rise from the dead"?????
God only knows!
And I have lost my treasured Teacher.

Are you speaking as though you are one of his disciples from when Jesus died on the cross? Is that what this is?

 

[Maori Aussie]

Are you speaking as though you are one of his disciples from when Jesus died on the cross? Is that what this is?

Exactly. I am trying to remember the traditional Church teachings on where our minds or psychology should be on each day of the Paschal season. What I wrote was for the Saturday following the Crucifixion. I recall the word Pensive in the teachings.
I used Mary Magdelene's term of address for the Lord. Teacher, or Rabonni.
Then, reflecting on the style of Hebrew Poetry, I added the last line.

 

[Christsfreeservant]

Exactly. I am trying to remember the traditional Church teaching's on where our minds or psychology should be on each day of the Paschal season. What I wrote was for the Saturday. I recall the word Pensive.
I used Mary Magdelene's term of address for the Lord. Teacher, or Rabonni.
Then, reflecting on the style of Hebrew Poetry, I added the last line.

Okay, thanks. At first I didn't get it, but then I played it back in my mind and I figured that must be what you were doing. I don't think I have ever heard anyone do that before.

 

[Maori Aussie]

Okay, thanks. At first I didn't get it, but then I played it back in my mind and I figured that must be what you were doing. I don't think I have ever heard anyone do that before.

I think amongst Protestants (and I am Protestant) the common attitude seems to be "we know how the story ends. The Lord has Risen!". But historically the RCC put on Passion Plays and asked its followers to 'walk the Passion walk, day by day" alongside the earliest Disciples, emotionally. I think they have a good point.

 

[Christsfreeservant]

I think amongst Protestants (and I am Protestant) the common attitude seems to be "we know how the story ends. The Lord has Risen!". But historically the RCC put on Passion Plays and asked its followers to 'walk the Passion walk, day by day" alongside the earliest Disciples, emotionally. I think they have a good point.

Thank you for sharing that with me.