Based in part on 2 Sam. 7:29:
A Faithful Companion by Michael Doyle In a world filled with grief and acrimony God wants to bless our lives through testimony Loving us unconditionally and wanting our best He walks beside us ensuring that we're blessed Of the blessings is the promise He made to us each Jesus' promise to never forsake His flock within reach In our every struggle and in all of our endeavors Jesus stands beside us all as our personal savior In these moments remembered that God brought us this far As we have followed His ways following His true star In all our doings, it is the Lord's name of magnification It falls on us to acknowledge this in our appreciation I seek that the Lord will in all ways bless my home And all of my family in knowing we are never alone It is a good, earnest thing to know that we can Sitting before the Lord though we are but woman and man Looking back on the relationships of all of our past We look toward the future in all the hopes that will last Moving forward each step of the way in joyful supplication We seek God's good will in all for our best satisfaction Though at times we are asking what it is that we should do We must keep God's counsel and His word in our constant view As the love of a Father insists on all undivided good We approach life knowing that it is as it must be understood It is then up to us to keep the good habits that keep us alive Not merely getting by or over or under just to say we survive Instead seeking blessings actively in what our homes choose Seeking the right guidance of which we know not to refuse Living lives of discipline and seeking in all ways our purity Forgiving us as we forgive others and keeping our history Not as something to weigh us down but as to lift us up in our days Keeping the Word of God as our own in keeping all of His ways God knows and we know that if we will listen we will hear As we pray to Him all our hopes, dreams and at times of fear We believers live the good life that we have in supplication All the days of our life to be lived in fullest appreciation Every child of God has the promise of everlasting God within Though at times life comes at us and we feel we're wearing thin Neither forgotten nor ever shall he forsake as in obedience To Him as we live walking our days under stewardship and guidance Guided through God's eye, listening in our every circumstance We live in joy in our wisdom shown to us in all His providence We ask; we trust; we wait and then in all humility we obey Each day's new beginning is that of God's promises along our way In so doing, we find ourselves sealed in our enabling power To strengthen us in all we do in all of our many living hours In all that we must do we must carefully listen to God's plan He most certainly has a plan for every woman and every man In every moment we find that good or bad we reap as we sow This is the absolute truth as every seeking soul must know Understanding in our obedience and reliance that we get done All that God requires as we live under His moon and His sun Sowing the goodness in our lives in our fullest obedience Never putting aside the ought or the should as expedience Our is an awesome God who has in mind that we will find our best It is in so living that we can expect and be truly blessed When things happen we do not quite understand, we seek the lesson This God of ours will never be one to leave us along and guessing We live forgiven and in and through His love faithful always In giving to us what we need as it comes to pass through our days We gather at the foot of the Cross despite our indecisions Living our best lives despite our aim's imprecision Secured by God's only begotten Son finding temporal end at the cross And providing our salvation through His momentary loss (c) May 4, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
