Soul-dier's Charge/ Challenge!

Remembrance Day: Last Post and Reveille

Someday a universal Last Post/ Last Trump will sound

begging these questions...

To what ending do we labour,

Shoulder burdens, laugh and weep

Keep the faith and love our neighbor

Rise and shine and go to sleep

To what purpose do we reason

Weathering life's highs and lows

Persevering through each season

Bearing one another's woes

To whose command do we cater

Left foot, right foot, on and up

Does the grave or something/One Greater

Drain life's Intangible Cup

To what finish do we struggle?

What good is the bad we bear?

What makes worth earth's toil and trouble?

What makes lucrative its care?

To what Triumph do we rally?

Braving sorrow's bitter sting

What makes bearable the valley

To what Promise can Hope cling? 

For what profit do we suffer?  

What makes the Prize worth the fight?

What is dark foreboding's buffer?

What defends deferred delight? 

What Cause rouses us from slumber?

What fuels faith's Sacred Charge

What use are tears without number?

Is prayer but a drifting barge?

Is joy but what this world offers?

Always death's impending prey? 

Is wealth but cold, gold-lined coffers

By ill Fate's stroke borne away?

Or, is God's love, life's ambition?

Is  His Promise worth the price?

Is His Reward worth the Mission

His love worth the sacrifice?

Does what-waits-to-be compel us

To trust and be of good cheer

Does the love of God indwell us

Making all the difference here? 

Love helps everybody shoulder

Life, as on and up we plod

Love never fails any Soul-dier

Who has put his/her trust in God

Love's Call of Duty is wending

Warriors God-ward, undeterred

To a Beginning,  unending

Eye has not seen nor ear heard 

Then with valiant, holy fervor

Spirit armed and gospel shod

Fight the good fight like a Soul-dier

Bringing all glory to God

© Janet Martin

1 Cor. 2:9

it is written:

“No eye has seen,

no ear has heard,

no heart has imagined,

what God has prepared

 for those who love Him.”b

2 Tim.2:3-5

You therefore must endure[a] hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

 4 No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, 

that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. 

5 And also if anyone competes in athletics, 

he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.