He took this heart of stone,
with its coldness deep within
hammered away the hardness
that was embedded with my sin.
He chipped away my conceit,
chiseled at all the greed
until my soul was ready
to accept the sower’s seed.
It fell upon such fertile soil,
I was ready to receive
the truth sown before me
was so effortless to believe.
My new-found faith in grace,
turned into wavering’s of doubt
I soon began to wander . . .
to shut the Lord’s Word out.
For years I denied it,
the sin, the lust, the greed
for years I defied it
the truth, the way, the need.
But this refined heart of stone,
finally saw its reckless ways
and God knew I’d return
from my drifting all those days.
And now I am a faithful sower,
I understand the heart of stone
so, I pray if you;re wandering
you too, will find your way back home!
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“Thou tellest my wanderings:
put thou my tears into thy bottle:
are they not in thy book?”
King James Version
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Copyright 2013
Deborah Ann Belka
November 18th, 2019 at 3:58 PM
Reblogged this on Madison Elizabeth Baylis.
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November 19th, 2019 at 11:19 AM
Thank you Jeremy for blessing me with a reblog of my post 🙂 ~ to GOD be the GLORY ~
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November 18th, 2019 at 12:00 PM
[…] From The Poem: This Heart of Stone […]
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November 3rd, 2013 at 10:37 AM
Blessings! Nice work of prose here. 🙂
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November 4th, 2013 at 11:02 AM
Thank you Jeanne and God Bless!
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November 2nd, 2013 at 5:34 PM
Isn’t this a familiar story–His amazing grace, and Amazing Patience that He knows who of us will return to His open arms. Oh, it’s good, Sis!
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November 4th, 2013 at 11:01 AM
Yes, He does and He is waiting for everyone who has lost their way to return to Him! ~ Blessings ~
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November 2nd, 2013 at 5:09 PM
Praise God. This poem is needed for those Christian children who have backslidden. Come home. Do you remember when you wanted to do right. Come back, Jesus will forgive you.
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November 4th, 2013 at 10:59 AM
Amen! I pray they will return to their first LOVE! ~ Blessings ~
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November 2nd, 2013 at 5:04 PM
Reblogged this on Valleys and Heights and commented:
Amazing poem
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November 4th, 2013 at 10:56 AM
Thank you so much for the reblog ~ Blessings ~
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November 4th, 2013 at 11:47 AM
No problem, you post great stuff worth reblogging
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November 4th, 2013 at 11:50 AM
Thank you for your kind words . . . . such a source of encouragement for me!
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