Jim Perry
was A Poetic Man.
That
lifted God on high.
Some of
his words made you think
And some
you’d almost cry.
A word
would jump off the page
And touch
the hearer thus.
That if
you did not get right with God
Surely all
would be lost.
Other
words he chose so dear
It brought
Jesus close to our heart.
That
through the Lord
We can all
have a new start.
His words
would exalt the Lord
And teach
a lesson well.
Many a
preacher could use his prose
To ring
our conscience bell.
That we
can share God’s blessings
And avoid
the fowler’s snare.
That we
can walk separately
From the
world out there.
Jim’s
poems are a blessing
His words
were written with care.
Jim’s
poems are still with us
To exhort
and teach and share.
No doubt
some will face eternity
As before
their Judge they stand.
Knowing
their hearts were touched
By Jim
Perry: A Poetic Man.
It is with a great sense of loss that we
must report the passing of Brother James L. Perry. He left the
trials of this world behind on March 11, 2000 and is now
awaiting the final trumpet to sound the first resurrection.
At age 73, Brother Jim had served the Lord
for 23 years, having been saved at the age of 50. Many hearts
were touched during those 23 years by his enthusiasm for the
Lord and his child-like faith. He was often heard to say,
"If God didn’t mean it, He wouldn’t have said it!"
Many of you have read his poetry in this
digest and have been stirred by the piercing warning of his
messages. Sometimes he made us laugh and other times his
reflective questions would cause us to see the gravity of our
actions as a twinge of conviction struck our hearts. Some of his
poetry proved to be fodder for good sermons preached across the
land.
It is only fitting that the poem above,