The Inexhaustible 'More' of God's Word

2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 8For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 8 is to write a more poem... Ps.139:17-18How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!How great is the sum of them!If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;When I awake, I am still with You. As I puttered about the house, doing Saturday taskslike muffin-making... ...I listened to the beautiful funeral message for Cecil Shoemaker,(someone with close ties to many people we know)who passed in the blink of an eye, from Time into Eternity. In my own grief-journey I often marvel at the sweetness of joy to comfort sorrow,as the death of a loved one who has receivedthe gift of salvation when they put their faith in Jesus,transports them to the presence of God. What joy unspeakable and full of glory fills the aching void!I am so thankful for the Word of Godfilled with truths that will never fail!Every Christian, regardless of denominationturns to the same Word of Godto be taught and encouraged etc. Because... What hope the Word of God securesIn a world plagued with sinWhat peace the Word of God assuresTo all who trust in Him What grace the Word of God proclaimsTo save the deathless soulAnd spare us from eternal flamesAs endless ages roll What joy the Word of God bestowsTo all who love his lawWhat wealth of wisdom overflowsWhat height and depth of awe What truth the Word of God makes knownTo calm confusion's gale Truth's Everlasting CornerstoneWill never shift or fail What might the Word of God instillsWith power from on highAll He has promised He fulfillsHis decrees never lie What help the Word of God suppliesWhat answer to our prayersEnough to know He hears our criesEnough to know He cares What worth the Word of God unveilsWe cannot comprehendLove and mercy that never failsPurpose no one can bend What cheer the Word of God impartsHe comforts us. AmenBringing courage to fainting heartsTo strengthen faith again God's Word is a light to the worldA beacon undeterred The path of righteousness unfurledThrough the light of His Word God's word is faithful to correctExhort, safeguard and guide Oh, pray that we do not reject His Presence to preside What love the Word of God confirmsProved through salvation's priceWhat merciful, relentless termsSucceeds His sacrifice What life the Word of God commandsWhat confidence in deathTo rest assured within the Hands Who hold/made Heaven and earth What praise the word of God inspiresHe paid salvation's costBecause He utterly desiresThat not one soul be lost What more and more the Word of GodReveals to all who seekHis holy, just judgment, unflawedTo satisfy the meek The more we seek the more we findHumbler, purer delightAs God equips heart, soul and mind To walk by faith, not sight Janet Martin 1 Pet.1:22-2522 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth []through the Spirit in []sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, 23 having been born again, not of []corruptible seed but []incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides []forever, 24 because“All flesh is as grass,And all []the glory of man as the flower of the grass.The grass withers,And its flower falls away,25 But the []word of the Lord endures forever.”