34, 4-4, SHOW NOTES & COPYRIGHTS (planned 12/10/21)
UPDATED 12/6/21
Poems leading up to Christmas
THERE IS ONLY ONE RHYME THAT WILL LAST BEYOND TIME Living In God’s Rhyme, pg.93, ©2018
From the beginning and until the end we
Have rebelled against our most Holy Father.
We have committed adultery with gods of wood
Thinking that for us they could provide good.
Prophets of Old Testament times have spoken
Of your anger at a people whose lives were broken,
Broken because their bond with you was torn
Long before so many were ever born.
John of the New Testament describes his revelation
Of the future of this world, of the end of nations.
We who are living in the grace of a new covenant
Have brought disgrace to the grace of his Providence.
What are we to do amid this turmoil
As the Heavens cry and our hearts boil?
How do we avoid God’s anger, his wrath
As we continue down our destructive path?
Read his word, the scriptures both old and new.
Read his word, believe in his word and have life anew.
Though angry his love turned to blood,
His blood, that of his Son, that of his love.
If you believe in the God of the Bible,
You must believe his every word,
What he has done and what he will
Because of what we have done and will.
His ways are not our ways
And our ways are not his.
Be thankful that he loves us
More than we can ever love him.
He wanted us to be with him forever
So he sent his son to be the sacrifice,
To pay the price for the sins of many,
So that in his sight we are made right.
Read, believe, be baptized and spread his word.
Open your hearts to him so your soul may be saved,
That you may face eternity, not with foreboding,
But that you may face it forever with joy.
We know the story of the past,
Pray that we do not make it last,
Pray that the die has not been cast,
That at this time you accept his grace.
Since his word spoke this world into existence,
Since that word paid the ransom for our resistance,
Since before we were conceived in the womb
He knew us and desired that we avoid the tomb.
It is in our hands, the decision to be in his hands.
Get up from your life and with God stand.
Stand with faith in the resurrection of his Son
And our resurrection from what we have done.
God loves us.
He wants us with him.
He died once
That we might live.
Jesus rose so that we who believe
May also rise with him as we receive
All.
Reflection on There Is Only One Rhyme That Will Last Beyond Time
Every time I read the Bible I hope that God has a new poem to write. Sometimes it has been after reading only a few verses. This time it was after reading Jeremiah 14-16. I have been fascinated with end times prophecy for years. I am now more fascinated with the Old Testament prophets. I remember sitting with a small group in a 7 week session on Christ. The question was asked, does God ever get angry. Yes. I am glad that He loves and forgives. This poem is a continuation of the last poem in God’s Rhyme, Broken Hearted. I wrote it on Dec. 30, 2014. When I finished the poem, God said that the book was done. I know now it was only the beginning.
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