What God Has Said Is So...

 My sister dropped off a belated birthday card yesterday and a bag of poems she clipped or copied from here-and-there that she thought I might enjoy...I opened the card and teared up at these familiar, yet dearly, precious verses.(if you click on the image, then right click on 'view image' it will be easier to read)

If we succumb to thee, oh murderer of hope and pen

If we allow you to endow our How with death, what then?

And if, because you are so present in each untried thing

Or in what we cannot full see, pray, who would laugh and sing?

If we grant chilling numbness leadership, ah, then we die

While still the mouth inhales, exhales; our spirits lifeless lie

The dreamer would be empty and the poet would be too

And no one in the world would dare to try anything new

God, bless our trembling fingers, wobbly knees and lips stiff-dry

And bless the pulse that quickens as we utter this, ‘I’ll try’

For we were given spirits to love one another here

And not to live as half-a-man because of thee, oh Fear

Then pray the Lord to instill in our hearts His perfect peace

And trust him for the outcome in our awesome weaknesses

For Faith is fear’s arch-rival, quieter perhaps but oh,

Fear cannot conquer or usurp what God has said is so

© Janet Martin

If we have not believed in He

Who saves us from death’s hell,

Then we should be afraid,

Very, very afraid

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. 1 John 4:18