Prime Example

PAD Challenge day 11:For today’s prompt, write a prime poem.

Our Prime Example grants pure, perfect purpose to

all we do...for Him!

Lest love leaves us looking for a little more than life can give

We should use its Prime Example to learn how we ought to live

He, for our benefit, looked far beyond the present price

Bringing many sons to glory through love’s precious sacrifice

He with a Father’s compassion primes dawn’s blush on eastern brim

Where He longs with time's extension to draw all of us to Him

How He cares for we who He formed in His image, soul instilled

Letting us through His son Jesus gain the joy His grief fulfilled

Lest we, caught up in the moment overlook The Greater Plan

(So much more to love’s big picture than these little days of man)

We should strive with awed endeavor to mirror God’s sympathy

(He who did not spare His Best for the sake of humanity)

We are all brothers and sister, born to love and not to slay

None of us is least or greater (no matter what people say)

All unworthy benefactors of love’s holy agony

And His precious Prime Example; only love can set us free

Then, lest love should leave us looking for less than Mercy’s intent

We should imitate the passion that left the temple’s veil rent

Allowing by faith, free access to approach God’s throne with awe

Granting hope far better than the letter of a works-based law

God is love; from, through and for Him we lack nothing if we trust

For he knows how we are formed and he remembers we are dust

As a father has compassion for His Children, so the Lord

Does not give what we deserve but reserves Heaven as reward

© Janet Martin