Saturday, May 4, 2019

Armour-Awareness...


Forgive the Poem-flood. I'm posting this past week's writing so I don't get lazy 
and think I can get away with not thinking for a bit ;-)

How in the world can we survive the trouble and the tests
Or easy explanations from the Tempter’s cunning quests
And how do we decipher right from wrong or wrong from right
If we decide to turn our eyes from The Word’s Guiding Light

Pride goes before destruction; haughtiness before the fall
But Death and Resurrection’s triumph hails to one and all
Then how will survive if we disregard Calvary
And darken understanding with the lesser gods we see

This churlish mind is master of excuses, ruses, lies
Our trophies of disaster deck the ashes of disguise
Still, Mercy’s sacred purchase peals in every gifted breath
Then how will we survive if we exchange God’s grace for death

…for we will never be enough to save our soul’s from hell
Without the power of the cross, how dark death’s doleful knell
And how will we survive if we Taste grace, then spit it out
To stuff faces with flavours that will poison faith with doubt

How in the world can we survive the pitfall and the snare
If instead of God’s armor we choose sin’s entangling fare
And how, without His Word to be the lamp unto our feet
Will we be fit for Heaven when soul and the Saviour meet

© Janet Martin

Those who cling to worthless idols
forfeit the grace that could be theirs.
But I, with a song of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you.
What I have vowed I will make good.
Salvation comes from the Lord.

Jonah 2:8-9


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