Mercy-message

 PAD challenge day 3: Write a message poem

There is a message none should dare to shun

Of sacred absolution spilled in red

This mercy-message is for everyone

As on behalf of us the Author pled

There is a message no one should ignore

Lest Death should come and seal redemption’s gate

This mercy-message opens Heaven’s door

Or bars it to the one who trusts in fate

There is a message written, not in ink

But in the blood of One, Jesus, God’s Son

And all who will believe and trust in it

Will not perish when this small life is done

There is a message that never grows old

‘Love of God’ on centuries engraved

A mercy-message told and then re-told

For it is by His grace that we are saved

© Janet Martin