Why this poem?!!
Because whoever and wherever we are,
God so loved us that He gave his only begotten son
that whosoever believes in Him
will not perish but have everlasting life.
John 3:16
...and we all need to be reminded
this sacred prelude, this day of grace
is leading to Forever and ever. either with God
or without!
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We love to think about and praise God for his love, hallelujah!!
but His love would be a mockery
without judgement's wrath against all injustice and evil!
We don't hear the word hell much, used
in the context of its awful truth, do we?
And small wonder!
There is no more sobering topic in the whole world.
But on the other hand, if this is so,
why are we so afraid to speak of it
and perhaps snatch someone from a fiery grave?!!
Not everyone goes to Heaven,...
"“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’
shall enter the kingdom of heaven,
but he who does the will of My Father in heaven."
said Jesus in
Matt.7:21
While we are saved not by works, but by the gift of God's grace
through His son, Jesus
works will always testify who we truly believe, honour and love above all!
Don’t buff truth with a lie
Don’t sugarcoat hell’s lair
Don’t wink and think the sin will die
Without confession’s prayer
The Word of God is just
And absolute and whole
The Word of God transcends the dust
That clothes the deathless soul
When God joins him and her
Or sever with a signature
One, turned back into two
Beware, lest lies take root
Be careful lest you fall
The tree will be known by its fruit
God’s Word, infallible
Fall on your knees and pray
The hope God calls us to
Commands us to love and obey
In everything we do
Be on guard where deceit
Gains popularity
Because its laws seem kind and sweet
-er than God’s fixed decree
The Tempter’s cunning guile
Harkens back to that day
When he deceived Eve with a smile
And ‘did God really say?
There is a Promised Land
There is a lake of fire
One, for the Faithful to the End
The other for the liar
The want of man will fight
And fight and fight until
He sees God in dawn’s breaking light
And yields his stubborn will
Then, wanting above all
A life that God can bless
By honoring the sacred call
Of holy righteousness
Don’t buff the truth with lies
And think no one can tell
The Word of God does not disguise
The awful truth of hell
There is a way that seems
Right in the eyes of man
Beware, beware, the devil schemes
To seduce all he can
Forbid that we become
Wise in our own eyes
Untroubled by the condition
Of truth exchanged for lies
It is a fearful thing
To live bold and unbowed
Far worse, the awful reckoning
To die, still cold and proud
God's grace will intercede
And help us bear the cross
That guards against the lies that lead
To hell and endless loss
Forbid that we become
Emboldened by a lie
Until the conscience becomes numb
To what will never die
© Janet Martin
Luke 16:17-18
It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear
than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
“Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery,
and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV /
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?
Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters,
nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves,
nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified,
you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Rev.20:15
And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:8 ESV /
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers,
the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars,
their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur,
which is the second death.”
When we are struggling to know if something is right or wrong
don't ask of someone 'what do you think??'
What we think is irrelevant!
Go to God's word and seek what He commands!
The Hands of God
D.H. Lawrence (1882-1930)
The Hands of God
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
But it is a much more fearful thing to fall out of them.
Did Lucifer fall through knowledge?
oh, then, pity him, pity him that plunge!
Save me, O God, from falling into the ungodly knowledge
of myself as I am without God.
Let me never know, O God
let me never know what I am or should be
when I have fallen out of your hands, the hands of the living God.
That awful and sickening endless sinking, sinking
through the slow, corruptive levels of disintegrative knowledge
when the self has fallen from the hands of God,
and sinks, seething and sinking, corrupt
and sinking still, in depth after depth of disintegrative consciousness
sinking in the endless undoing, the awful katabolism into the abyss!
even of the soul, fallen from the hands of God!
Save me from that, O God!
Let me never know myself apart from the living God!
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