Making the Most of Opportunity

I take a lot of good-natured ribbing when it comes to poetry,(which is fair)
 teased, depending on what is happening that likely I'm coming up with a poem...
I wish it was that easy😊😉 

...but on the other hand, everything I do is poem-fodder, perhaps, Lord willing!

Last night was my turn to bring a meal to alpha and someone teased me that maybe this will be the topic for the next poem...in a way it is, but not because of the food, but rather the people who came out to eat before doing the next lesson in alpha on their journey to Bethlehem/discovering Jesus!

What is Alpha? below is the introductory video to the course...

 

What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? 

 To whom will you run for help? 

Where will you leave your riches?

Isa.10:3

The love of God is beckoning; oh loved one, do you hear

Because the day of reckoning is drawing ever near

Where we will meet the One whose hands are Calvary engraved

Who came not to condemn the world but that we may be saved

The Hope of God is imploring; oh, hopeless sinner, heed

For the cost of ignoring Him is terrible indeed

Ah, who can bear to meet Him, middle-step and unprepared

Too late to seek redemption when the soul from flesh is bared

The grace of God is pleading still, lest graceless death is Chief

Come, only Jesus can fulfill the Bulwark of Belief

Then haste, the way the shepherds did when angels hailed Christ's birth

To taste firsthand the wonder of Heaven come down to earth

The mercy of God moans and groans where moments hide His face

The One whose blood atones extends time’s steppingstones of grace

Until the breadth of moments yields unto eternity

The love-hope-grace-mercy of God grants opportunity

© Janet Martin

If you are interested in taking the alpha course google it to find one near you.
If you would like details on the one offered at WBC please contact me or WBC.

Anyone, everyone welcome!