Test-Run

This test-run offers no 'test-run'!

We are all first-timers to each day

and its come-what-may.

Let's be kind.

The success of life's tests

depend greatly on the attitude/gratitude

 of the 'Student'.

How often life's greatest tests are wrapped in

the common cloth of day-to-day!

Pray, on our Pilgrim-progress, we press with reverence 

'toward the mark for the prize of the high calling 

of God in Christ Jesus.'

Phil.3:14

You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. 

But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; 

rather, serve one another humbly in love.

Gal.5:13

Everything is a test 

Weighed on a scale of love 

The way we treat our fellowman 

Is the law that will prove 

By how we spend our time 

The heart of you and I 

With what we have and what we do 

And who we serve and why 

Everything is a test

Our onus of reply

That may seem small is always hinged

To more than meets the eye

And presents everyone

With a subtle exam

Where often the way we respond

Reveals the hidden man

 

Everything is a test 

This moment-marathon

Runs rife with 'second-miles' where life

And time wait for no one

Thus, it is up to us

To choose right here, right now

Who we will serve and worship with

Today's momentous How

 

Everything is God’s grace 

All that we have is lent 

And in case we forget our place 

We all are called and sent 

Not to earn Heaven’s pass 

But humbly do our best 

To honour He who grants each day 

Where everything is a test 

© Janet Martin