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Doing the Right Things
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By Eve S. Thornton
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Doing The Right Things



These times I feel like a toddler
taking baby steps t'ward Him
I fall before I reach His Arms
and must crawl back again.

Though in each trial God has a plan
to teach me His instructions
He brings my actions into view
so I make no assumptions,


and in these times I learn to lean
upon His sweet detention
for that 'nagging' I have felt
is God's loving conviction.

My Lord is Truth and Spirit
to avoid the serpent's stings
for all of the right reasons
I will learn to do right things.

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Proverbs 1:3 ~ To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
Proverbs 1:7 ~ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

I've done too many wrong things
I thought were for right reasons
I've searched the limits of my faith
beyond its farthest regions.

To assume a thing is right
when it, in fact, is wrong
causes a separation
and a nagging all day long.

It makes me think back over
the words I spoke today
perhaps an unkind deed or thought
that just won't go away.


Proverbs 1:3 ~ To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

Proverbs 1:7 ~ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.


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Submitted: Friday, January 20, 2012

Last Updated: Saturday, January 21, 2012

About the Poet
I feel truly blessed to have been a wife, mother, grandmother and servant of God through salvation in Jesus Christ my Lord. I pray that my offering to Him through this seemingly innocuous form of communication called poetry will always lift His Name above all other names. May God bless each of us in this pursuit.


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