Wisdom in Rhyme

By Maxine Bryant-Neway

Maxine "Maggie" became a follower of Christ more than twenty years ago. In awe of the glories of god's greatness, and his overwhelming and amazing love for mankind, her zeal for the Lord is insolvable.

Rhymes were a part of her youth. Sending a note to a friend; adding something more to a card; and a feasible attempt at song-writing, to eventually rhyming old journals, which served to navigate memories long hidden and brought to remembrance and unveiled in her rhymes.

Glorifying and honoring god is the foundation of this book, sharing her stories is an enlightenment to possibly inspire another to the saving love of Jesus Christ.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Oct 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781638818410

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WISDOM

IN

RHYME

M

AXINE

B

RYANT-

N

EWAY

Copyright © 2022 Maxine Bryant-Neway

All rights reserved

First Edition

NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING

320 Broad Street

Red Bank, NJ 07701

First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2022

ISBN 978-1-63881-840-3 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63881-841-0 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Contents

Crucifixion and Resurrection

Faith defined

So I Just Imagine

Why Do I Love Thee

The Armor of God

End-Time

A God-Given Position

Pastor Carlo Mendoza

This Child

Deity of Jesus—the Son of God

Christmas Eve

Love, the Most Excellent Way

Ungodliness and Unrighteousness

My Journey to Christ

My Day of Salvation 2/20/2000

My Testimony

The Tent Tabernacle

Free of God—Yes, Free Indeed!

What Jesus Is to Me

Congratulations

A Tribute to My Sister, My Friend

Hi Sis, It’s Maggie

Me Again

Staying in Touch

Quicken Me

Last Night I Dreamed

Lillian Thompson

Dearest Friends

In Awe of My Jesus

Colossians 1:9–13

Moving Day

Walk by Faith

Divorce and Peace

To Him I Do Not Know

Creation

My Dearest Friend Rosell

Shelby (Poopie) Bryant

Georgeann (Reese) Scott

Our ABCs in Christ

Dr. Ronald E. Roberts Sr.

Appreciating Pastor Roberts

Appreciating First Lady Inez

I Realize

Spiritually I See

The Father and Son and Holy Spirit

Holy Trinity

O My Lord!

Conflict

The Ten Plagues

In Recognition of Edna Anderson

Temptation

Loss of a Child

Various Scriptures

Worry and Anxiety

For a Funeral

Lead and Guide—Will and Way

Before and After

Did You Hear?

Welcome to the Family

I Am

Crucifixion and Resurrection

He’s the lamb of God

The Son of Man never sinned

Why then was he handed over

For this mock of a trial to begin

A charge of false accusations

Though he uttered no words of deceit

Amassed by the chief priest and elders

With desire to keep their choice seats

Betrayed with a kiss in the garden

Arrested sheep scattered and fled

The high priest now stood above him

Is it true these things they have said?

As sheep before the sheerer is silent

He uttered not a word

Didn’t part his mouth to speak

For the truth would not be heard

Yet, he is able to destroy the temple of God

And rebuild it in just three days

He submits to the will of the Father

And fulfills it without delay

"I charge you under oath by the living God

These things they say—are they true

Art thou the Christ, the son of the blessed?"

Answerest thou, this ye do

"I am, and you shall see the Son of Man

Sitting at the right hand of power

And coming in the clouds of heaven"

Said he, though no one knows the hour

Like a lamb, he was led to the slaughter

Handed over to be crucified

Washing hands of innocent blood, Pilate says

Let it be on you that he dies

Stripped and dressed in a scarlet robe

A crown of thorns pierced his head

A staff in his hands, mocked bowed-down heads

hail king of the Jews they all said

He was spit upon and insults were hurled

Blindfolded he could not see

With a staff he was struck over and over again

And each blow that he took was for me

Whips and chains whelped his skin

Chunks of flesh tore from his body

To his head and face crushing blow after blow

So was he scourged, dragged, bludgeoned, and bloody

His appearance became disfigured

Jesus was beaten in such a way

He was marred beyond human likeness

As he carried our sins away

He was misinterpreted and rejected

A man of sorrow who was despised

Grief became his acquaintance

In speaking truth void of lies

The humble suffering servant

Had no beauty they were appalled

A glorious conquering king was hailed

Not this lowly man of God

His importance—miscalculated

His divine nature—overlooked

Dubbed an ordinary man Christ our savior

Was given the worst, and that he took

Afflicted and oppressed, considered stricken by God

Glorification was not sought

Though he took up our infirmities

Still we esteemed him not

To the cross he carried our sorrows

He was crushed for our iniquities

Pierced for our transgressions

His suffering brought us peace

He was given wine to drink

As he hung in the place of the skull

After tasting, he refused it

For it had been mixed with gall

Insults did not cease on the cross

Save thyself and us, if thou be the Christ

Lord, remember me in your kingdom, said one

He said, Today you will be with me in paradise

He saved others…let him save himself

As people watched, the rulers sneered

His clothes were divided, cast by lot

As soldiers laughed, ridiculed, and jeered

Now from the sixth to the ninth hour

Darkness covered the earth in awesome gloom

Foes and followers alike fell silent

Engrossed by encircling doom

As he took on the sins of the world

A deep expression of anguish he felt

Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?

(My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?)

Though he did not mind the drinking

He suffered greatly for the world’s shame

It was the time of separation from the Father

That distressed him all the same

"father, forgive them

For they know not what they do

I’m thirsty…it is finished

Into your hands I commit my spirit to you"

As he spake the words it is finished

He means that it’s paid in full

Redemption had now been purchased

By his hanging in the place of the skull

When he yielded up the ghost

His legs they were not broken

His side pierced came blood and water

Fulfilling all the prophets had spoken

Those sleeping in Christ rose from the tombs

The curtain rent, the earth did quake

Those watching feared greatly

But had fear come too late?

With permission, joseph and others

Wrapped him in linen and laid him to rest

While some had rent their clothes

While still others smote their breast

God’s will was to crush and cause him to suffer

And make his life a sin offering for you and for me

To let him die a shameful criminal’s death

For all the world to see

For only Christ’s blood satisfied God’s requirement

His blood was shed for the remission of sin

And Father chose the sacrifice himself

His son became the sacrificial lamb

Hallelujah! On the third day

Christ resurrected from the grave

The hold on him, death could not keep

He had only died to save

The Lord God raised him up again

And his flesh suffered no decay

An end was put to the agony of death

As the stone was rolled away

He is not here, but he is risen

Why seek the living among the dead

Terrified, they bowed their faces

Remembrance came to what Jesus had said

"the Son of Man must be delivered

Into the hands of sinful men

Be crucified and on the third day

Be raised to life again"

No man took the life of Christ

It wasn’t an execution or assassination

But a willful sacrifice of himself

The cross was ever his destination

With the cross being the destination

And the very reason for which he came

The resurrection then was never in doubt

It’s the glorious validation of his claim

God in his omniscience knew

He’d create man and man would fall

And man would be redeemed by Christ

At the cross, once and for all

In his crucifixion and resurrection

He struck the deathblow of Satan’s rule

All power is given in heaven and earth

Till his enemies become his footstool

In his crucifixion and resurrection

Is the foundation of our faith

We are justified by faith through redemption

As he intercedes pleading our case

In his crucifixion and resurrection

We too with assurance guaranteed

Forever with Christ in eternity

Beyond the grave life will exceed

In his crucifixion and resurrection

He absolved the destruction of God’s wrath

We now have peace with God through him

Sanctifying peace, to ever last

The final and ultimate sacrifice for sin

Why did Christ do this for you and for me

Because it wasn’t the nails, but his love

That held him on the tree

They accused, arrested, and crucified

And still could not thwart his hour

He established credentials as lord and king

Divine glory full of grace and power

Only in the Son of God is salvation

Be unto him that your heart yearn

And for all who just do not believe

You’ll see, when Christ returns.

Faith defined

(Hebrews 11:1–40)

It is the substance of things hoped for

The conviction of things not seen more

But a good report men of old obtained

Shows faith in God is not in vain

The world did not simply arise from matter

Thus the unbelievers chatter

Believers see creation by God’s command

This through faith we understand

By faith:

Able offered a more excellent sacrifice to God

Cain was cursed and dwelt in nod

By Enoch’s faith, he experienced no death

Was transported to heaven without losing breath

Noah, heir of righteousness, which is by faith

Escaped the flood in obedience to grace

Did as commanded in the sight of the Lord

To him and his heirs, God said, Come aboard

Abraham, the father of many nations

Sojourned to a land without hesitation

Though the promise of God made her laugh indeed

Sara ovulated fertile seed

In her nineties she had not yet conceived

Bore him a son, because she believed

He offered up Isaac as was told to do

Abraham believed God’s promise was true

Concerning things to come, Jacob and Esau were blessed

Isaac blessed them both, faith looked beyond death

Blessed the sons of Joseph, worshipped leaning on a staff

Jacob did by faith in death’s immanent path

By faith:

Joseph made mention of the exodus to come

Gave commandment of his bones what was to be done

By faith they hid Moses, a proper child he was

Did not fear punishment, by faith just because

Moses forsook Egypt, fled the king’s wrath

Instead suffered affliction with God’s people, alas

Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater treasure

Beyond any riches Egypt could measure

The walls of Jericho fell down by faith

As they compassed around them seven days

Rahab the harlot, perished not in disbelief

For receiving the spies to her in peace

Gideon, as surly with you I am

Shall defeat Midian as one man

By faith his fleece a victory being

Destroyed a gross idolatrous thing

By faith Barak did as the prophetess said

No honor to him, to a woman instead

Still he slew the army, not one was left

But Jael was chosen for Sisera’s death

A Nazarite to God, no razor touched his head

With a jawbone of an ass, a thousand lay dead

By faith Samson cried, Let me avenge my eyes

He slew three thousand in death, more than in life

Valiant warrior, son of a harlot, disinherited of family

Made a vow to the Lord for deliverance of the enemy

Did according as he vowed, no man his daughter knew

Jephthah, man of faith, desired God’s will through

By faith he slew Goliath, right from the start

David became a man after God’s own heart

Anointed king of Judah—and Israel

His covenant with God indeed prevail

Ultimately his successor is the son of David

Lord of lords, King of kings, Christ our savior

First and last human name in the New Testament

David, one of the great