Familiar
Familiar to my memory someone I saw today
A person from my distant past that lives quite far away
Though not at all the person I first thought that they might be
It's funny how familiar can entice one's memory
To go back to those distant years that were so long ago
To bring back all the joys and fears in life you used to know
To ride the roller coaster of emotions in your mind
From all the times and places in your life you've left behind
But sometimes in familiar there are lessons that we learn
And credits toward future success these lessons help us earn
Not focused on the failures as those things that bring us down
But how by not repeating them we gain a higher ground
Where slowly if we're wise and true to principles of grace
Remembering what we went through and what we had to face
We look to those around us as a fertile field to sow
The wisdom of the chosen Way by grace we've come to know
The Way that faces forward to the Kingdom that we seek
The Kingdom that's not earned but given to the pure and meek
Who have the Saviour's cleansing from the past things we have done
His molding and His fitting that makes us reflect the Son
Who too has known familiar and still knows it everyday
Who knows the haunts and challenges that meet us in the way
As He went there before us with the devil on His heels
And lived a life of poverty that knows the way one feels
Who's traveled through a rocky past though sin was not His game
Still He could feel the hearts of those He met as though the same
In person with that fallen soul so needing of His love
And of that certain surety they had a Home above
That Home where all the failures and the painful things of past
Will be forever lost to mind as sin is gone at last
And all we'll know is purity of heart and soul and mind
Not needing all the painful lessons we have left behind
For there we'll walk with Jesus Who alone is our Best Friend
Exploring endless galaxies with Him that never end
Where all that is familiar are the scars on Him we see
The emblems of God's righteousness that save both you and me
Micah 7:18-20; Isaiah 64:6-9; Hebrews 4:15
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