The Best News the World's Ever Heard

 

This poem was inspired in part by this message

and in part by a broken heart for those

who don't know or simply don't care about

The Best News the World's Ever Heard

"Isn't this the best news the world's ever heard?!!"

Alistair Begg from the message/link below

Dealing with difficult people-Alistair Begg

Here is the best news that the world’s ever heard

Sealed in sacred script of God’s eternal word

In Him is the life, and that life is the Light

That shines in the darkness to give faith insight

To guide and direct, to rebuke and advise

To keen our conscience, lest sin blinds our eyes

To reprove excuses for commands we shirk

To train and equip us for every good work

To walk in a manner worthy of the call

From He who shed his own lifeblood once for all

So, all who believe in Him will never die

Saved from the curse wrought through the serpent’s first lie

Here is the best news that this world’s ever heard

Hope anchored in truth of God’s eternal word

His counsel to help us to trust and obey

To guard us from pitfalls on charming display

Because the law of the Lord is love’s delight

Awe’s sweet meditation by day and by night

To quicken the prayer for bold scorners that laugh

In the face of He who will sift them like chaff

When the day of grace that runs wild through each breath

Is severed as life’s silver cord yields to death

And it is to late to be suddenly stirred

By salvation’s best news this world’s ever heard

© Janet Martin

Psalm 1 KJV

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,

 nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; 

and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, 

that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither;

 and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,

 nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: 

but the way of the ungodly shall perish.