A Hellish and Heavenly Reality...

 Inspired in part by Ann Voskamp's gripping post yesterday...

  

There is a battle that exists twixt apathy and righteousness

It is not fought with swords or fists but with response to holiness

To disregard God may appear of little consequence, at first

How subtle is the arsenal of disobedience, death-cursed

No red flags wave, no caution lights warn us of second thoughts to give

Only the Word of God abides to teach us how we ought to live

Oh, ye of woven dust to dust, dost thou not feel God’s fingerprint

Oh we, students of lust or trust, do we not see time’s meager stint

If God would part the veil to grant a breath-breadth-glimpse above, beneath

How we would all grow deathly pale to witness weeping;gnashing teeth

How we would all then seek the Lord today, while He may yet be found

One glimpse of heaven’s rich reward would confirm This is holy ground

…and we would love the Lord our God with all our heart,soul, strength and mind

And we would not despise the rod but beg to be tried and refined

To keep us from being deceived by a buffet of blinded sight

Rather, keened to eternity that lurks like a thief in the night

And not be seduced by displays of poisoned peaches, honey-dipped

But prepare for that Certain Day when body from the Soul is stripped

How thin the veil of skin that separates man from his Maker, God

How unalterable The Choice when dust and ash succumbs to sod

Wake up; wake up, all ye who slumber while the Groom is drawing nigh

Rise, fill your lamps and trim your wicks and be ready to hear His cry

When in the twinkling of an eye we will be changed forevermore

Then pray we ponder somberly the soul-goal we are headed for

© Janet Martin