Settling the Doubt-Duel (With No Doubt About It)

Can you pick figs from thistles?

Matt.7:16

There is no doubt about it; By our fruits we are known 

Can we pick figs from thistles; or pluck grapes from a stone 

There is no doubt about it; we reap the seed we sow 

God is not mocked; and it is He who said that it is so 

There is no doubt about it; time is a transient toll 

And none can know the hour that shucks body from the soul 

There is no doubt about it; the tricks that we employ 

If we are apart from the Vine will never yield full joy 

There is no doubt about it; we fight an enemy 

Not flesh and blood but evil forces that we cannot see 

There is no doubt about it; Someday, the recompense 

Of Faith, the substance of our hope before the evidence 

There is no doubt about it; we prefer kiss to kick 

And comfort’s pretty flower to conviction’s thorny prick 

There is no doubt about it; we are a broken breed 

Dependent on God’s mercy to supply our daily need 

There is no doubt about it; waiting is hard to bear 

But oh, how oft its anguish authors our most humble prayer 

There is no doubt about it; in the fist-a-cuffs of life 

We start to seek a city better than this world of strife 

There is no doubt about it; the Lord gives and He takes

And we are called to bless His name for He makes no mistakes

For there's no doubt about it; we come with empty hands

And we can carry nothing past this cast of sea-swept sands

There is no doubt about it; the greatest of these, love 

No other power can eclipse or ever be enough 

There is no doubt about it; if we seek God, we find 

His peace, past understanding to guard our heart and mind

There is no doubt about it; no matter what we face 

If we believe, will never be beyond God's realm of grace 

There is no doubt about it; after life’s race, my friend 

A crown of righteousness awaits all faithful to the end 

© Janet Martin