Mighty To Save

The future of the past unchains the air

And breath-soft fills the dark with morning-tide

Upon its current of ‘from Here to There’

Quick generations of time’s sailors ride

On frigates wrought with naught but morn to night

Laden with circumstance and wrong and right

Toward a Harbor estranged from this wee

Arrangement of grievous mortality

The winds of change will never threaten There

Nor vex these vessels tossed upon Want’s wave

The beggar and the prince will soon rest where

Distinction does not note master or slave

Or recognize Entrapment doomed to rust

While seeking to ensnare victims of dust

Upon Time’s rising-falling tempest toll

That strips the vessel bare of all but Soul

Pray then to the kind Keeper of time’s Sea

For He can save us from death’s stormy grave

Or how could we endure eternity

Estranged from He who is Mighty To Save?

Salvation is Hope’s anchor; nothing else

And Heaven is a Harbor, but not hell

Oh, pray we do not sail, tossed aimlessly

Toward a Brink from which none are set free

…the future of the past unchains the air

And pours God’s grace to Time’s wee thoroughfare

© Janet Martin

I was struck this morning by a vision of a sea

Where young, old and in-between buck the waves of circumstance

Toward eternity…

Our God Is  Mighty To Save!  

 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,  rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

  Col.2:6-8