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