Playing with Fire

The fire dances pretty, the fire’s clothed with light

While it destroys it also shines bright

What is turning to ash before your very sight

The conflagration  burns out-and you are left in the night.

The fire can teach you- or it can be your true bain

The plain thing is seen true and the truth is made plain

Some lessons can only be learned through its pain

When you’re playing with fire beware of its reign.

When you’re playing with fire you’re gonna get burned

You’d have thought that by now you would have learned

After all of these scars and pain you’d have discerned

When you’re playing with fire you’re gonna get burned

The fire has its purpose and it has its way

Subvert its  design and be brought to dismay

So warm your soul by it as this lamp lights your way

But if you abuse it there’ll be the devil to pay

When you’re playing with fire you’re gonna get burned

You’d have thought that by now you would have learned

After all of these scars and pain you’d have discerned

When you’re playing with fire you’re gonna get burned

When you’re playing with fire you’re gonna get burned

When you’re playing with fire you’re gonna get burned

September 10, 2023

Anthony Foster

Amazing Jesus

The wisdom of my Lord it is amazing

All He is and all He does will amaze

He is beautiful beyond description

His person is all worthy of praise

Amazing Jesus how sweet the name

In the glory of His presence stand amazed

Amazing Jesus ! May our life’s aim

Be to know you ever more fully all our days

He raises the dead and makes blind men see

His amazing power knows no end

He breaks our bonds and he sets us free

From the fear of death so on Him we depend

Amazing Jesus we seek your face

Undone by glory when on it we have gazed

To be with you forever in that most holy  place

Astonished and astounded and amazed

To savor all God has for us in You

To rest within your favor ever new

Your compassion and your Word forever true

Oh Amazing Jesus we love you!

Amazing Love, amazing grace

Amazing  kindness in His embrace

He is the amazing Truth that frees us

Amazing Jesus! Amazing Jesus!

May we forget our self, Lord,  as we seek you

And in your presence be undone and dazed

Lost in joy and awestruck to embrace You

To be hid in Christ with God for all our days

Amazing Jesus we seek your face

Undone by glory when on it we have gazed

To be with you forever in that most holy  place

Astonished and astounded and amazed

Amazing Jesus how sweet the name

In the glory of His presence stand amazed

Amazing Jesus ! May our life’s aim

Be to know you ever more fully all our days

September 5, 2023

Anthony Foster

The Battle is the Lord’s

The battle is the Lord’s

And He must have the victory

I surrender to the victor

The King of all glory

He has overcome

The world and all my sin

It is over and it’s done

So the war is mine to win

So I surrender to the Captain

Who is a warrior King

The Battle is The Lord’s

Of His victory we sing!

We war not with mere flesh and blood

But against principalities, 

Against powers,  and dominions

And rulers of the darkness we cannot see

We war against spiritual forces 

Of evil in the heavenly places

And victory is surely ours

As we lift our voice in praises!

The enemy has seen defeat

Death and darkness now have died

His purpose is complete

And He won’t be denied

The battle is the Lord’s

And He must have the victory

I surrender to the victor

The King of all glory

So I surrender to the Captain

Who is a warrior King

The Battle is The Lord’s

Of His victory we sing!

Ephesians 6:12; 1 Samuel 17: 47

August 31, 2023

Anthony Foster

Good News

There is good news, good news for the sinner

Whether you are a loser or you think You’re a winner

All of us need Him and need His provision

If you search under heaven, there is no vision

Friend, There is Good News

That overcomes Bad News

No man who can pay his dues

But the one Man Jesus Christ.

Yes there is Good News

If your life you would lose

To gain life eternal

In the One Man Jesus Christ.

I had there deep inside of me a principle of sin

I put forth a false image of what was true within

I knew no good resided there but I hid my disease

Until God opened up my eyes to the truth that frees.

Friend, There is Good News

That overcomes Bad News

No man who can pay his dues

But the one Man Jesus Christ.

Yes there is Good News

If your life you would lose

To gain life eternal

In the Savior Jesus Christ.

If you confess Him as Lord

Repent and be saved

Friend you cannot afford

To cling to the grave

Friend, There is Good News

That overcomes Bad News

No man who can pay his dues

But the one Man Jesus Christ.

Yes there is Good News

If your life you would lose

To gain life eternal

In the Savior Jesus Christ.

August 29, 2023

Anthony Foster

There But For the Grace of God

There is none righteous there is none holy

There is none who seeks for God solely

We are born sinners lost in transgression

All our iniquities call us to confession

I see it everywhere I go, folks lost in fantasy

Pursuing ease and comfort and thinking they are free

While all the time they’re dead in sin with no hope in sight

Pleased to wander in the dark and running from the light

There but for the grace of God go I

There but for the grace of God go I

Nobody’s perfect, we all need a Savior

We all feel sin’s effect, in need of God’s favor

Made in God’s image, that image is broken

There’s but a vestige, but there’s a word He has spoken

The lost and the lonely, the damaged and undone

Come to the Father , you fallen forsaken son, 

There but for the grace of God go I

There but for the grace of God go I

Bridge

Wondering  who will bleed for the callous and corrupt

We all have the same need, we are ruined and bankrupt

There but for the grace of God go I

There but for the grace of God go I

Self pity and self pride, and selfish ambition

The self cannot be denied, that’s our condition 

Self righteousness rules men and self pity assails

Self love yields a bitter end,  And self sufficiency fails

There but for the grace of God go I

There but for the grace of God go I

There but for the grace of God go I

August 28 2023

Anthony Foster

May Christ be Magnified

In  Christ we live and move and have our being

In Christ we give to prove the  faith the world is seeing

Lord, may we by our living

May we by our moving

May we by our being

See Christ be magnified

In Christ we have a more sure hope than the world can give

In Christ we have the means to cope and the means to live

So may we by our hoping

May we by our giving

Even by our coping

See Christ be Magnified.

We want to see you maginified in  our lives Lord, 

We want to show you as the worthy one to be adored

We want the world to see the grace of God can’t be ignored

So we will live our lives

We will give our lives

As a living sacrifice of praise outpoured

In Christ we have abundant life, a gift for us to live

In Christ we have unending love, that we must learn to give

So even in our giving, 

May we in our loving

May we in our living

May Christ be magnified

May Christ be magnified.

Anthony Foster

August 29, 2023