While love, not hate flings wide dawn’s gate;
life’s wonders wait to steal our breath
The hand that threads the wand that weds
dawn’s bronze and reds to night undone
Cannot be swayed;
Love does not fail but rends night’s veil
and tips dawn's grail of grace instead
Without love's promises
in the Word of God
to anchor hope
and secure joy
We are prey
for dread's deadly demons
set to loot frail soul-vessels
with brute fear
This morning in the dark before dawn
the immense sense of impending gloom and doom
fell away in the light of God's Word
Jude 1:20-21
But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up
in your most holy faith
and praying in the Holy Spirit,
keep yourselves in God’s love
as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ
to bring you to eternal life.
In the face of so much hardship all around us
may we never lose sight of the joy of
faith's glorious, flawless facts
'bringing us to eternal life'.
In time’s showcase of doubt, we brace ourselves to face forecasts of doom
While mercy swells from ancient wells to toll hope’s bells with joy, not gloom
Deathtraps to happiness seem set to collapse ‘perhaps yes’ with ‘nay’
While God attends the rod that rends night’s veil and bends the dark with day
Dread’s demons lurk; their doleful work of woe berserk with throes of death
While love, not hate flings wide dawn’s gate; life’s wonders wait to steal our breath
For we are not by God forgotten; we, so rotten to the core
Still sole heirs of His grace and love; guilt’s trove spoiled with goodness galore
The hand that threads the wand that weds dawn’s bronze and reds to night undone
Cannot be swayed; this day He made both field and Reaper’s blade in one
Do not despair, but be aware; life’s care is but the thoroughfare
That leads back to, not what but Who offers true joy beyond compare
Who can afford God’s love ignored and the reward that Truth exacts
While skylines brim with proof of Him where none can dim Faith’s flawless facts
Of God in charge, though World at Large may barge where angels fear to tread
Love does not fail but rends night’s veil and tips dawn's grail of grace instead
© Janet Martin
