Our Desperate Need...

Forgive, chastise, oh loving God

The pitfall of man's errant laud

Feeble, the grasp of carnal creed

To comprehend man's desp'rate need

Or the cost of the sacrifice

That paid, once and for all, sin's price

Where He who knew no sin became

The scapegoat for its gruesome shame

And bore on the behalf of we

Our punishment to set us free

Where He who owed us nothing, gave

His Son to overcome the grave

The cross, hope's glorious crux unfurled

To bring life to a dying world

Where we deserve Hades abyss

If we reject such love as this

Where Jesus Christ, through His death freed

And satisfied man's desperate need

© Janet Martin

If we reject God

we under-estimate

the grossness of our sinful state 

and that which word cannot tell

or both Heaven and hell...

Recently I heard a preacher suggest that if every single person received one glimpse

of either heaven or hell, hell would be empty.
so great the glory of heaven, so awful the horror of hell!

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God

 but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them 

because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

1 Cor.2:14

1 Corinthians 1:18
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing,

 but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.