I wrote the first four lines before Little Girl arrived early this morning...
Tonight the poem veered slightly off dawn's dew and mist-smitten track😐
...but oh, what a gorgeous track it was.
In first light earth gleamed like a silver tray till the sun broke through
and bathed each dew-slathered blade in gold
Only God could design such detailed magnificence!
From dawn’s belfry starred beauty tolls fresh goals of
hope and pray
Light peals down boulevards, through quiet yards, across
the bay
Where none of us are overlooked in mercy’s spending-spree
And plethora of choices where grace remains, full and free
Belief, the chief employer of the way the heart is led
Is no fair-weather joyride till the thrill of it is dead
But it becomes the benchmark for all else that we achieve
Where choice without a word voices much of what we
believe
…where morn beams mercy’s beacon over good and evil’s
clan
And does not scorn the fickleness of Very Little Man
Into a the world that hosts the turmoil of doubt’s
prideful ways
God grants to humankind free will; while truth abides
unfazed
No one can force belief or love; its discourse starts
within
And stirs a monumental charge in puny gloves of skin
Where love begets belief, nay, or does belief beget love?
Where faith and love in man alone can never be enough
Belief, ah, who can flee it; even unbelief believes
And dares to refute boldly what this unbelief receives
Where Truth, ah Steadfast Truth is not threatened by mortal
drift
But is the very Essence of the Rock that will not shift
The gift of choice; ah, what an awesome undertaking, this
To choose heaven or hell (there is no in-between abyss)
But God, so rich in mercy gave to humankind The Choice
And placed within each cup of skin the whisper of His Voice
© Janet Martin
Little Girl sometimes throws a tantrum when Baby-sitter doesn't bow to her command!
Sometimes Little Man does the same to God!
The Peril of Unbelief...Hebrews 3:12-19
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief
that turns away from the living God.
But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today,
so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly
to the end the assurance we had at first.
As it has been said:
“Today, if you hear His voice,
do not harden your hearts,
as you did in the rebellion.”
For who were the ones who heard and rebelled?
Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
And with whom was God angry for forty years?
Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest?
Was it not to those who disobeyed?
So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.
And oh, look at who is depending on us to teach them Truth?!
