Analysis of The Pleasure of God



Hear, O people, and God will speak,
He will testify against you;
The burnt offerings are weak,
The sacrifices are not true.

The Lord will be rebuking you,
He is not accepting a bull;
Or the goats that have no value,
Because each of you is a fool.

For every beast of the forest,
The cattle on the thousand hills;
Are not considered the choicest,
Since they are having many ills.

God knows all the birds in the air,
All creatures that move through the field;
You need to be very aware,
Sacrifice for scars has not healed.

If God hungered, He won’t tell you,
For the world and fullness in sense;
Hunger and thirst He does pursue,
Could be considered a pretense.

Does God eat the flesh of a bull?
Or does He drink the blood of goats;
Does He sheer sheep to wear the wool,
To make it into overcoats.

Offer to the Lord thanksgiving,
Pay your vows unto Him in prayer;
Sacrificial time in living,
With the Lord all the time you share.

Call on God in times of trouble,
He will rescue and glorify;
Pulling you out from the rubble,
Confession He will purify.

Copyright © 2024 Richard Newton Sherrer


Scheme ABAB BCBX DEDE FGFG BHBH CICI JFJF KLKL X
Poetic Form
Metre 11100111 1110011 0110011 0100111 01110101 11101001 10111110 01111101 110011010 01010101 11010010 11110101 11101001 11011101 11111001 1011111 1111111 10101001 10011101 11010001 11101101 11110111 11111101 1110110 1010110 11110101 0101010 10110111 11101110 1110010 10111010 0101110 10101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,098
Words 244
Sentences 10
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 33
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 94
Words per stanza (avg) 23

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Owner or Steward? Psalm 50:7–15

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Written on March 12, 2024

Submitted by richardnsherrer on March 11, 2024

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Richard Newton Sherrer

I was born and raised on a farm in Pennsylvania. It was a small family farm that was handed down through 8 generations of Sherrer men until my father; Newton just could not make a living from it any longer. He thought that I would make a better living away from the farm. So, I decided to join the Air Force in 1969 upon graduating from high school. I gained quite a bit of experience and insight on life while in the service. Even though I was only stationed on the east coast of the US, my Air Force career took me to Germany and Korea. After 20 years wearing of the blue uniform, I decided going in a different direction and found myself becoming very diverse in many different fields. Something still seemed missing to me after being separated from the service for about 10 years. The Air Force was a way of life for me, but really missed life in Korea. I found myself changing careers again. Poetry was an interest of his since my days in high school. With returning to the Lord, I felt motivated to write of my Christian beliefs. I started looking at Bible verses and reflecting on my own personal experiences. The Bible was found to be as true today as to when the various books were written. I could see much of what the Bible is teaching us as valid as every in modern time. It felt only natural to me on using his personal experience based on Bible verses and see much of my own life written in the Scriptures. God inspires me what to write about though. I do not claim to be an expert on God or the Bible. I am just a Christian who has become enlightened to write poetic verses from the Holy Scriptures. more…

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