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Beauty, Biblical Truth, Christian Poetry, holiness, Inpirational, Inspirational, Royally Redeemed, Spiritual Warfare, theology, Triumphant
Note from the Poet
Dear Reader,
These lines were born from a heart keenly aware of its own frailty. In a world where temptation whispers at every turn, I have felt the Spirit’s gentle yet urgent call to look first within my own soul. How often do the lost pour their whole strength into fleeting sin, while we who know Christ sometimes drift with lesser zeal!
This poem is my prayer and my plea: that we would pursue the righteousness of our Savior with a passion that far exceeds the devotion of any sinner to their chains. May we examine ourselves daily, not in self-condemnation, but in humble dependence upon Jesus—clothed in His perfect righteousness, empowered by His Spirit, and drawn ever closer by His matchless love.
May these words stir your heart to run the race with fresh fire, fixing your eyes on Christ, who is both our example and our strength. To Him alone be all the glory.
In fervent hope and brotherly love,
The Poet
On Self-Examination and Vigilance
“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”
— 2 Corinthians 13:5
“Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”
— Psalm 139:23-24
On Temptation and Sin
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”
— 1 Corinthians 10:13
On the Righteousness of Christ
“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
— 2 Corinthians 5:21
“And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.”
— Philippians 3:9
On Passionate Pursuit and Zeal
“Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
— Philippians 3:12-14
“Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.”
— Romans 12:11
On Wholehearted Devotion
“And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.”
— Luke 9:23
In Christ our Savior, source of perfect light,
We fix our gaze with hearts aflame and true;
Though sin surrounds like shadows of the night,
His righteousness becomes our bold pursuit.
With passion burning brighter than the lost
Who chase their fleeting pleasures to the grave,
We press toward the mark, no matter cost,
His holy ways our treasure, all we crave.
We search our souls beneath His piercing eye,
Confessing every stain that mars the soul;
Yet clothed in Him, we rise and testify—
His blood has made the broken sinner whole.
O Jesus, draw us nearer to Your throne,
Ignite our zeal to follow after Thee;
More fiercely than the world pursues its own,
We run the race, Your righteousness to see.
In fervent love we mirror Your pure grace,
Devoted wholly to Your will divine;
No lesser fire shall ever take Your place—
Our Savior’s righteousness forever mine.
Lord, fan the flame within this yielded breast,
That we may live as beacons in the strife,
Passionately following Your righteousness,
Bound to Your heart for all eternal life.
Passionately Pursuing Christ 