Walking with the Father - Poem

Walking with the Father

What does it mean to walk with God?
To feel him every step I trod.
Indescribable love for me
He shows with grace and mercy free.

Without him I am nothing at all.
With him I stand straight and tall.
Nothing’s impossible when he’s nigh
Yet I can do nothing when I try.

At first this way seems incomplete;
I accomplish no tremendous feat.
Instead, I fall and fail again;
I cannot seem to conquer sin.

I try as hard as I know how
And with a wrinkled worried brow
Assess my life in disarray
And wonder why I went this way.

Was it to find success and joy
I first loved God as a little boy?

I think of my first prayer request:
I hadn’t even done my best.
Why should he meddle in my life
Or cure my silly third grade strife?

A school test was my concern;
It wasn’t my desire to learn.
My pencil had simply come up lost
And my emotions were sorely tossed.

I prayed for God to intervene.
The best thing that I’ve ever seen-
A pencil lay upon the ground.
I think it wanted to be found.

You say, “No God would place it there.
This trifling thing is not his care.”
Perhaps for you this might be true;
This no God would do for you.

For God is such a noble term,
Implying someone strict and firm.
I don’t believe that God came down
Removing robe and royal crown

To place a pencil in my path
To ease my teacher’s certain wrath.
His title changed to meet my need;
The Father came to take the lead.

I knew that day I was his child.
My life he’d molded, watched, and styled.
Since then my Father’s always there
My worries doubts and joys to share.

Joint heir with Jesus Christ I am
Related to that worthy Lamb.
I ask believing, and I find
The custody papers God has signed

To call me his own child, and then
He answers prayers and conquers sin.
I yield my life to his control.
Forever his name I’ll extol.

My life is neither rich nor poor,
But every time my heart is sore
I find him with me every hour,
Not sitting in palatial tower.

My Father knows my every need
I am his own adopted seed.
He intervenes for me each day,
And answers every time I pray.

His presence is reward enough
For every time my path is rough.