Christian Poems for Your Daily Life and Walk with God
Be encouraged and refreshed as you enjoy these inspirational Christian poems that uplift the soul. Whether you need strength to face the challenges of life or are praising the Lord for a season of blessing, God’s promises and the wisdom found in His Word will guide you and bring you true joy as you gain a fresh perspective on your relationship with God. These poems for the Christian life are a great way to share God’s love and provide hope and encouragement for others.
Top Christian Life Poems
God’s Love for Me
God’s love for me is boundless –
It’s deeper than the sea
And won’t run out no matter
How much He does for me.
God’s love for me is endless –
It never fades away.
He’ll always truly love me
Forever and a day.
God’s love for me is changeless –
No matter what I do
He sets His love upon me
Each day again like new.
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I’ll Use What God Has Given
I’ll use the voice God gave me
To praise His holy Name,
I’ll use the tongue He gave me
To spread His worthy fame.
I’ll use the hands God gave me
To serve the Lord today,
I’ll use the feet He gave me
To walk in heaven’s way.
I’ll use the mind God gave me
To think on things above,
I’ll use the heart He gave me
To learn and share His love.
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The One I Will Praise
God orders my steps with compassion,
His mercies are new every day;
He knows what will come and prepares me,
He teaches my heart what to pray.
His goodness is strong and unfailing,
His faithfulness flows from above,
His grace is more sure than the mountains,
He anchors my hope in His love.
There’s no one so kind and so patient,
His holiness shines like the sun;
He showers my path with His blessings
And meets all my needs one by one.
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This Cherished Prize
This Cherished Prize
I’ve found a thing so grand and fine
It’s captured my attention,
A treasure worth my every thought
Which has my full affection.
The other things I used to love
All pale beneath its beauty,
And I have found another way
To judge life’s highest duty.
I’d trade the world for what I found,
Give up all other treasure,
For I possess a greater wealth
Than earthly minds can measure.
This cherished prize that I possess
Is Jesus Christ my Savior,
Eternal life, unending love
And God’s abiding favor.
Christina Joy Hommes
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.” – Matthew 13:45-46
I’d Like to Visit Heaven
I’d Like to Visit Heaven
I’d like to visit heaven
For just a day or two,
Lay down my heavy burdens
And rest a little, too.
Be done with pain and sorrow
And shed this bent toward sin,
Find perfect peace and freedom
And boundless love within.
And most of all see Jesus,
My precious Friend and Lord,
Whose Word is my commission,
His smile my heart’s reward.
That rest, it seems, would fit me
To better service here,
Renewed, revived, refocused
With mind and purpose clear.
Instead I must be patient,
Content to work and wait,
Without that glimpse I long for
Beyond the pearly gate.
My work must first be finished
And then the call will come
To enter heaven’s glory –
Forever safely home.
Christina Joy Hommes
Claim It All
Claim It All
I have a mighty Champion
Who pleads the rights He won
Not for Himself but for my sake
Because of all He’s done.
He fought to buy these privileges –
He gave His life to gain
A glorious, bright inheritance
Through sorrow’s deepest pain.
He will not let the honors fade
For which He gave His life
Or let me have a partial share
Of what He won through strife.
So as He sits upon His throne
Now robed in victory
He intercedes on my behalf
To plead His cause for me.
He sees my interest as His own
In all that He procured
And now demands the total prize
For which He once endured.
So why should I, through guilt or fear,
Hold back or forfeit ought
That Christ Himself desires I have
And with His life-blood bought?
Arise, my soul, and claim the whole
Your Advocate has won
To thus lift high His mighty Name
And praise the work He’s done.
Christina Joy Hommes
“Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.” Hebrews 7:25
Only One God
Only One God
We do not need a different God
For every situation:
A god for rain, a god for health,
A god for soul salvation.
Our God is One, the Lord of all
In every realm of living,
And all the good we ever see
Is from His constant giving.
Whatever fear, whatever need,
Whatever help or blessing,
There’s just one God to seek and serve –
There’s no concern or guessing.
He made the world and all it holds,
The stars and highest heaven,
He holds all things and guides each day,
And we are His possession.
Both daily bread and peace of mind,
Eternal life and healing,
Are all bestowed by one true God
Whose love they’re all revealing.
So bring your needs – both big and small –
To God the loving giver;
Serve Him alone and trust His grace
To bless and to deliver.
Christina Joy Hommes
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:” Deuteronomy 6:4
“Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.” Hosea 13:4
The Waiting Times
The Waiting Times
Unjustly in the dungeon’s depths,
Then hope flared bright and died
As “two full years” dripped slowly by
While Joseph stayed inside.
Impatient people checking in
To hear God’s final word;
A week, ten days of silence first
Ere Jeremiah heard.
For “three full weeks” old Daniel mourned
While good and evil warred
Until the angel sent arrived
With comfort from the Lord.
Held captive in a pagan court
As evil rose and schemed
Before the dangerous moment came
When Esther intervened.
Life’s youthful years of dreams passed by
Without a single note
As God Himself in human form
Grew up without a quote.
Unfairly held to please the mob,
Imprisoned on a whim,
As years crept by with Paul locked up
While churches longed for him.
Take heart in such a company
When life is passing by,
The waiting times aren’t wasted ones –
God knows the when and why.
Christina Joy Hommes
Genesis 41:1; Jeremiah 42:7; Daniel 10:2, 13; Acts 24:27; 28:3; Psalm 27:14
What Faith Is
What Faith Is
Faith isn’t empty wishing
For what you’d like to see;
It isn’t simply guessing
The things you think will be.
Faith isn’t boldly stepping
To do the things you please,
Expecting God to back you
In thrilling feats or ease.
No, faith is shown in knowing
The things you can’t yet see
Then living like you’ve seen them
In hope believingly.
It’s staking all in trusting
The Word of God is true
And living like His promise
Is good enough for you.
True faith is full believing –
No backups, no plan B –
Because you’re really certain,
“My God comes through for me.”
A gift of God the Spirit,
In Scripture’s light it grows;
Faith gives you lasting triumph
And shields you from your foes.
Christina Joy Hommes
Hebrews 11:1, 6; Galatians 5:22; 1 John 5:4; Ephesians 6:16
All We Need
All We Need
When Pharoah’s heart was hardened
Against the Lord’s command,
He made the labor harder
Of those who built his land.
He told the weary Hebrews
That they must gather straw;
“Go find your own,” he told them
And made his hatred law.
Unlike the wicked Pharoah,
God gives His children tasks
And then provides materials
For anything He asks.
He gives the strength that’s needed,
The grace to make it through;
Provides for each assignment
And shows us what to do.
Lord, thank You for Your kindness
Providing all we need,
And giving us such mercy
In all that You’ve decreed.
Please help us serve with gladness
And praise You day by day
For guiding and providing
In such a gracious way.
Christina Joy Hommes
“According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue:” 2 Peter 1:3
What Will You Choose?
What Will You Choose?
Each day we face a simple choice
For darkness or for light,
For life or death, for truth or lies,
To do what’s wrong or right.
In Eden, too, the choice was made
To trust the Lord or not;
They ate the fruit, chose death and pain –
And that was what they got.
But Jesus came and took our death
To offer life once more;
Now you must choose it for yourself
For He’s the only door.
And then each day we face a choice
Of who we will believe –
God leads us right and offers life
But Satan will deceive.
So choose God’s path and trust His Word
To guide you in the light;
In time you’ll find that in the end
The Lord is always right.
Christina Joy Hommes
An Instrument of Praise
An Instrument of Praise
We do not praise an instrument
As if it made itself
Or think it did some wondrous thing
In coming off the shelf
But just the same we don’t ignore
It’s craftsmanship and skill
The beauty of its sound and form
That make the spirit thrill
So we are not to seek esteem
Or covet earth’s parade
But neither should we shrink from view
And hide what God has made
Whatever good another sees
In what we are and do
Is praise to God’s own artistry
As seen through me and you
Christina Joy Hommes
“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. … For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. .. Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.”
Matthew 5:16; Ephesians 2:10; Romans 12:1; Philippians 1:11
With Me Day and Night
With Me Day and Night
The Lord is with me day and night
So nothing needs to cause me fright;
He sees in darkness as in light
So I can trust He’ll lead me right.
When storm clouds rise and tempests blow
To God my refuge, safe I’ll go;
His mighty strength they grandly show
But cannot crush me here below.
By waters still and pastures green
On God’s provision I will lean
Enjoying blessings pure and clean,
Rejoicing in the good I’ve seen.
The Lord has been so good to me
His grace and mercy set me free,
In every gift His hand I see
Who keeps me through eternity.
Christina Joy Hommes