February has quickly passed,
As I gaze out my window,
I see four feet of snow
And the thermometer,
Reads twenty decrees below.
On my mind,
And on my lips
these words are found,
Hasten Spring,
With your green leaves
And bare ground;
O, to hear a robin sing,
And the call of the goose
through the valley ring,
To smell the scent of the wild rose,
And to shed these winter clothes.
Still we must be content,
To have what we have
And for God’s blessings sent!
O, how I long to go,
long to go,
on my wheeler,
to the place,
where the red pine trees grow,
my mind says yes,
but my body says no.
So I just dream,
about this special place,
where the red pine trees grow.
I would sit,
smell the flowers,
and listen,
for the call of the loon,
and the caw of the crow,
at my favorite spot,
where the red pine trees grow.
February days,
are more cloudy,
than they are bright,
but the snow flutters down,
making everything white.
Birds fly to and fro,
seeking their seeds,
from the feeders they know.
February days,
are lonely days,
they seem so long,
as we wait,
for spring,
and the robin’s song.
SOMETIMES WHEN I SIT,
LONGINGS COME TO ME,
LONGINGS TO TRAVEL,
TO FAR AWAY PLACES,
TO HEAR DIFFERENT SOUNDS,
DIFFERENT FACES SEE.
LONGINGS TO WALK,
ALONG MOUNTAIN TRAILS,
ALONG THE SEAS,
AND THROUGH GARDENS,
MANY FLOWERS TO SEE.
SOME DAYS I LONG,
LONG FOR HEAVEN,
THERE JESUS I WILL SEE,
IN THIS HEAVENLY PLACE,
NO PAIN AND SORROW,
NO CLOUDY SKIES WILL BE,
NO MORE LONGINGS FOR ME.
Not offend others by. — 1Co 8:9; 10:29,32
The gospel is the law of — Jas 1:25; 2:12
To finish our time in searching what the Bible says about Christian liberty lets search the verses above noted:
We should not use our liberty to offend others.
9 But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.
29 “Conscience,” I say, not your own, but that of the other. For why is my liberty judged by another man’s conscience? 32 Give no offense, either to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the church of God,
The Gospel is the law of Liberty:
25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. James 2:12 So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.
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