exhilarated choice

choose to proclaim than to complain

choose delight than disdain

choose give than to receive
choose nerve to serve than self-deceive

choose contentment, joy to deploy
choose gratitude versus self and others destroy

choose to humble than to grumble
choose His lead than self-fumble

choose to bear the brunt instead of grunt
choose to do it with glee instead of flee

choose to float instead of gloat

choose to exalt instead of stewing in pot
choose glory sprout instead of anger spout

choose to intersect, quit trying to dissect in disrespect

choose introspect in retrospect instead of elusive expect

kjv psalm 25:4-7  ⁴shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.⁵lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. ⁶remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. ⁷remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

kjv psalm 27:11 teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path.....
kjv psalm 86:11 teach me thy way, O LORD; i will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

playing god

you want me to do what?

kicked my butt, spitted me from the gut

wiped my smut

but, U angered my heart

how could U forgive ninevite crut?

U should have spurned and burned evil

they should have been obliterated in Your fury swivel

i am stumped, U averted holy trump

i am grump, there's no point living, U prevailed and i am dumb crumb 

anger, like worms

eats away the gourd of my terms

how dare i, to play god and desire to die

what a trap and lie

Your grace and mercy to complain, accuse and defy

it is me who should repent

instead of Your compassion upon sinners resent 

i am jonah mad 

to hurl at my maker and Dad

so i'd rather insignificantly die

as though it'll erase my significant sinful dye

o what satanic logic i've narcisstically applied

to limit God who gives life to me graciously supplied

who am i kidding? why am i bidding? 

doing it my way is not succeeding

results in only pride and rage bleeding

what's the point of speeding

without divine heeding

an infested gourd wake-up call needling

the God-placed seedling

i have been out-of-line

forgive me, pull me out of self-centered slime

let me sup and dine with the Vine

who am i to nickel and dime

don't let defiance and anger retard spiritual growth

let Your love and grace nurture my worth

job's right - You giveth and taketh

without God, i nothing worthy of Your glory maketh

all else is vain

a doomed soul brings no gain

Lord, deliver me from self-inflicted pain

arguing with God over a gourd tree

o God, set me free

get me off blasphemy spree

hurl me into obeying Thy decree 

through jonah's strife U show it's foolhardy god to be

drawing on right is from wiki commons

proverbs 25:28

he that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

ephesians 4:27

be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: neither give place to the devil.

ecclesiastes 7:9

be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

bellygerence restored

whoa woe yea
God loves jonah more than He can say
a second chance to head for nineveh
this time jonah succumbs to God's way

i recall the times i disobeyed 
from His will i swayed


swimming uphill against the tide


forcing square peg in circle rather than in Omega to abide


  
a sackcloth moment to seek redemption, His chide to hide
willful ways only got me fried
flee from pride, i cried


proverbs 11:2
when pride comes, then comes disgrace but with humility comes wisdom.