For Modern Day Adams and Eves...

Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was more crafty

than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made.

And he said to the woman,

"Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden?'"

2 Corinthians 11:3

I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning,

your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.

Gilt-edged dawns and gold-ambience-dusks

 are two of my favorite September things...

a bit like glimpses of a long-lost garden called Eden.

This poem's potential began a few mornings ago, though I was unable to

wrangle it into verse at the time due to other commitments...

Day wakens, crisp and silver-glossed

Dew glistens, on the fringe of frost

September morning, a showcase

Of mist-sashes and gilt-edged grace

Where modern-day Adams and Eves

Are still prey for he who deceives

And all the progress of the age

Cannot temptation's lures assuage 

Where Eden’s aftermath abounds

With unrelenting battlegrounds

And only God’s armor can stay

The charmer’s cunning ploy and play

Of ‘Did God really say?’ and such

To test the quests of taste and touch

With subtle rebuttals of scorn

For He who metes September’s morn

And tumbles before our eyes

Gilt-edged glimpses of paradise

Where each new day is like a flue

God's goodness ad mercy runs through

© Janet Martin

Ps.23:6

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life;

And I will dwell in the house of the LORD Forever.

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Before we face each day we ought to do an equipment safety check

so we are fitted for battle because

'we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,'...

Eph.6:10-18

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

11 Put on the whole armor of God,

that you may be able to stand against the [b]wiles of the devil.

12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities,

against powers, against the rulers of [c]the darkness of this age,

against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God,

that you may be able to withstand in the evil day,

and having done all, to stand.

14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth,

having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able

to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.

17 And take the helmet of salvation,

and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit,

being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—