My Precious Fine Pearl

"Buy truth and never sell it,

Also wisdom and discipline and understanding." Prov. 23:23.

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I'm just a girl

who searched and found a precious fine pearl.

All pearly white glistening bright.

I found this pearl

bringing pure delight...

Then almost sold it in darkening light.

Then remembered that I must fight to do what's right

Every new day... Even through the night

so as not to slight my precious King

who gave his blood for everything of value

that I might obtain a reward of Greatness:

"Yet, the things that were gains

to me, I have considered loss on account of the Christ.

What is more,

I do indeed also consider all things to be loss on account of the excelling value of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.

For his sake I have taken the loss of all things and I consider them as a lot of refuse, that I may gain Christ." Phil. 3:7, 8.

The cost no lost to keep me sane

during periods of daily strain.

With constant study, meditation, prayer divine.

I keep looking forward; leaving waste behind.

I'm just a girl

who searched and found a precious fine pearl.

All pearly white glistening bright.

I found this pearl

bringing pure delight...

Although, I must fight with glorious might

to keep a tight formidable grip on it... Slippery, I confess

at times... Yet,

I vow to not quit...

Trying... Not to Satan's tricks trip.

Not denying Christ,

but... "Forgetting the things behind and stretching forward to the things ahead". Phil. 3:13...

I must admit a degree of difficulty

if I don't thoroughly, wholeheartedly, dedicatedly commit

To God's Kingdom

as a true servant at heart... Submit.

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"That is why it is necessary for us to pay more than the usual attention to the things we have heard,

so that we never drift away." Heb. 2:1.