Poems by Robert Hawkins

Job 5 • God is Just
This is the 3rd in a series of 40 poems I wrote based on the book of Job. This is from Job 5, Eliphaz's first response to Job continues. Open your Bible, read along and let me know your thoughts! [he sets on high those who are lowly • Job 5:11]

Word!
Based on the scriptures found in The Purpose-Driven Life - Day 24. People need more than bread for their life; they must feed on every word of God. [Matt 4:4] How I love your teachings! I think about them all day long. [Psalm 119:97]

1 Corinthians 13
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith . . . .

Don't Grow Up to be Babies
Based on the scriptures from The Purpose-Driven Life - Day 23 • We are not meant to remain as children. Eph 4:14 • Stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults. 1 Cor 14:20 • God wants us to grow up. Eph

Job 4 • You Reap What You Sow
This is the 2nd in a series of 40 poems I wrote based on the book of Job. This is from Job 4, Eliphaz's first response to Job. Open your Bible, read along and let me know your thoughts! [those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it • Job 4:8

Out With the Old, In With the New
Based on the scriptures found in The Purpose-Driven Life - Day 22. For this is the secret: Christ lives in you. Colossians 1:27 Everything ... connected with that old way of life has to go. It’s rotten through and through. Get rid of it! Ephesians 4:22

Fighting for Harmony
Based on the scriptures found in The Purpose-Driven Life - Day 21. Let there be real harmony so there won’t be divisions in the church. I plead with you to be of one mind, united in thought and purpose. 1 Corinthians 1:10

Peacemaker
Based on the scriptures found in The Purpose-Driven Life - Day 20. God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God. Mt 5:9 What causes fights and quarrels among you? You do not have, because you do not ask God. Ja 4:1-2

A Nurse's Prayer
This seems appropriate for our world today as we find ourselves in the midst of a pandemic. Thank God for first responders! This was written in 1984 for my sister who had graduated from Nursing School. Technically, a newly-graduated nurse's prayer.