Analysis of Growing in Your Faith



Make a drive to be diligent.
Supplement your faith with virtue;
Virtue makes you intelligent,
Knowledge that helps to construe.

Knowledge will give you self-control,
And temperance for your patience;
A godliness abounds the soul,
Loving-kindness in your conscience.

These qualities that will increase,
Keeps you from being unfruitful;
So that your mind can be at peace,
Making your actions more graceful.

Knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ,
Will cleanse you of your former sin;
Not myopic to be enticed,
Which causes corruption within.

Be more diligent to confirm,
For qualities you can practice;
As a habit for the long term,
Which is building your confidence.

You will be richly provided,
Into His eternal Kingdom;
And you will become united,
Within His knowledge and wisdom.

Copyright © 2023 Richard Newton Sherrer


Scheme ABAB CDCD ECEX FGFG HXHD IJIJ X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 10111100 10011110 10110100 1011101 10111101 01001110 010101 10100110 11001101 111101 11111111 10110110 10101101 11111101 10101101 11001001 11100101 11001110 10101011 11101100 11110010 01101010 01101010 01110010 10101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 824
Words 161
Sentences 8
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 94
Words per stanza (avg) 19

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Confirm Your Calling and Election 2 Peter 1:5-11

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Written on January 03, 2024

Submitted by richardnsherrer on January 02, 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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