Onus of Belief (and unbelief)

 PAD Challenge 27:

For this Two-for-Tuesday prompt:

Write a believe poem and/or...

Write a don't believe poem.

We Believe- Newsboys

 

Some are afraid to Believe

For the onus it will bring

Because belief is grounded in

The soil of reckoning

And reckoning becomes

When this mist-kiss is through

The price of Belief’s soldered sums

Not in the what, but Who

Still, some avoid Belief

As if this will annul

The Soul that cannot die

And reply's inevitable

They scorn love’s Beckoning

Disregard the reward

But oh, unbelief's reckoning

Ought not to be ignored

© Janet Martin

John 3:16-21

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,

 that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 

 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, 

but to save the world through him. 

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, 

but whoever does not believe stands condemned already 

because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 

 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, 

but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 

 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light 

for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 

 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, 

so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done 

has been done in the sight of God.

Mark 16:16

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved,

but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Romans 10:9

that if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord,"

and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead,

you will be saved