For What God Said Is So

 

We held it; not for long

While yesterday we peered

Into Time’s imminent unknown

It breaks through veils soft-sheered

And understanding gapes

At the little we know

As for the rest, we cling to faith

For what God said is so 

Trial and error tests

The stomping ground of lips

For all the words of tainted Best

Many a Scholar trips

And it is hard to learn

Those things we need to know

Of Hope and Grace none can erase

For what God said is so

Nature does not resist

The Hand that tunes the trill

That probes the bud that blooms then drifts

To slumber where we will

Therefore we ought to trust

Time’s Mercy-Maestro

And give more earnest heed, indeed

To what God said is so

We held it; not for long

Today soon softly slips

Into that vast ethereal tomb

Of season-silenced lips

We touch and taste a draught

Fraught with what none can know

But God; and thus we cling to Him

For what He said is so

© Janet Martin

 God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? Numbers 23:19