Altar Call or (Of Living, Sacrificed)

Because the dust we stir is far more than a splash of echo-ash...

as we dash through numbered days

Rom.12:1

Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, 

by the mercies of God, to present your bodies 

as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, 

which is your spiritual service of worship.

Rev.14:7

He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory,

 because the hour of his judgment has come. 

Worship him who made the heavens, 

the earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

Rom.2:6-8

 6God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”a

 7To those who by perseverance in doing good

 seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.

 8But for those who are self-seeking 

and who reject the truth and follow wickedness,

 there will be wrath and anger.

The altar upon which we lay love’s living sacrifice

Blushes with hush of breaking day...

The altar upon which we lay love’s living sacrifice

Blushes with hush of breaking day and love’s impending price

Where it is easy to ignore its uncommanding pose

As we burst through dawn’s gaping door, laden with joys and woes

The altar upon which Choice proves who and what we love most

Because God loves us, pray, behooves us to examine boast

Where dust we stir with hopes and dreams and duty’s beck and call

Is far more than a sweep that gleams with season’s rise and fall

The altar upon which we place the living proof of love

Is gifted to us by God’s grace who fits us with enough

To worship Him, with heart and soul (where once this world enticed)

He helps us bear the sacred toll of living, sacrificed

The altar upon which we live is heaped with word and deed

Therefore, we always ought to give its off’ring earnest heed

In light of God’s sacrifice laid upon a cross, and then

To bow before the Lord who made Heaven and earth. Amen

© Janet Martin