Tuesday, December 28, 2021

While Love, Not Hate Flings Wide Dawn's Gate

While love, not hate flings wide dawn’s gate; 
life’s wonders wait to steal our breath


The hand that threads the wand that weds 
dawn’s bronze and reds to night undone
Cannot be swayed;


Love does not fail but rends night’s veil 
and tips dawn's grail of grace instead


Without love's promises 
in the Word of God
to anchor hope
and secure joy
We are prey 
for dread's deadly demons
set to loot frail soul-vessels
with brute fear 

This morning in the dark before dawn
the immense sense of impending gloom and doom
fell away in the light of God's Word 

Jude 1:20-21
But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up
 in your most holy faith
 and praying in the Holy Spirit, 
 keep yourselves in God’s love 
as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ 
to bring you to eternal life.

In the face of so much hardship all around us
may we never lose sight of the joy of
faith's glorious, flawless facts
 'bringing us to eternal life'.



In time’s showcase of doubt, we brace ourselves to face forecasts of doom
While mercy swells from ancient wells to toll hope’s bells with joy, not gloom
Deathtraps to happiness seem set to collapse ‘perhaps yes’ with ‘nay’
While God attends the rod that rends night’s veil and bends the dark with day

Dread’s demons lurk; their doleful work of woe berserk with throes of death
While love, not hate flings wide dawn’s gate; life’s wonders wait to steal our breath
For we are not by God forgotten; we, so rotten to the core
Still sole heirs of His grace and love; guilt’s trove spoiled with goodness galore

The hand that threads the wand that weds dawn’s bronze and reds to night undone
Cannot be swayed; this day He made both field and Reaper’s blade in one
Do not despair, but be aware; life’s care is but the thoroughfare
That leads back to, not what but Who offers true joy beyond compare

Who can afford God’s love ignored and the reward that Truth exacts
While skylines brim with proof of Him where none can dim Faith’s flawless facts
Of God in charge, though World at Large may barge where angels fear to tread
Love does not fail but rends night’s veil and tips dawn's grail of grace instead

© Janet Martin

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