. . . be ready always to give an answer to every man
that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you . . .
---1 Peter 3:16
Lord, I rejoice in the way You are reviving
the soul in me; glad to feel this stirring
(though I do not know yet, to entirety,
all of that to which it is referring).
Yet is it proof of Your merciful design
to overcome that which is mean and malign
within me---whom You privileged to receive
Your greatest gift of assured Salvation
because, having heard the Gospel, I believed
from that first day and continue to believe;
I had who been previously deceived
by the tempter. My soul's chief exultation
shall be the Faith that declares Jesus loves me,
Christ, Who died and rose again for my thriving.
Starward