lifelong lessons
Arise O Christian Song of war, cry of battle heralding Arise and fight For death looms The enemy stretches forth The neck of the godly to sever When no opposition he meets His deeds are prime and sound Were you called and given a sword To adorn the graves of Martyrs? Or gird your loin in fine array And sheath the piece that is your weapon? If our fathers played losers Are we to be on edge? […]
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Ebenezer to Ashdod all the way through To make god Dagon host to the Ark of God Having no say as always, was idol Dagon Who understanding the place of sovereignty Lifted not its visage to behold Shaddai’s presence And in complete prostrate bowed in utter defeat Daring a repeat performance his worshippers shoved him up Dagon bowed again, headless and armless! Parts strewn across the threshold Deathly fear struck, Holy Ark moved- Ashdod to Gath With a history of […]
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Ebenezer before Aphek, Israel against Philistine The first draw back laid four thousand lifeless torsos of Israel Eli’s deaf ear to his desecrating sons Full recompense had come to earn Neither sacrifice, nor offering, no appeasing God Beaten into retreat Israel for Shiloh headed The Ark of God’s covenant rather Him, to accompany them Desecrators Hophni and Phinehas as war heads led Israel’s applause of joy sent into desperate courage, the Philistines As the worse to come, came in measures […]
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We, made in the image of The Blessed Are configured for the best But being hoodwinked* like the rest We still sit in places of contest What could define the limits we see? And attest to the boundaries that besiege? When we have chosen nothing more to believe Than the enticing pleasures this world can give The heavens lament our plight Who having turned from the path of light Have wholly given our foe, our birthright Condescending so […]
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The journey is a difficult one Along this path straight and narrow My shoes are old and worn And the river gets no shallow More difficult would’ve been my plight If found on another path less straight Seeing an only way, truth and life Nothing could this plan perfect, than faith Yet I wouldn’t say it’s all bliss As I bear this burden though just I count all my ‘losses and misses’ And see that I’ve not one […]
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Thus were the heaven and earth completed That in the beginning was named void A definite plan, a daily toiling, an end reached The darkness willed that God rested from start For in it there would have been added toil time Maybe a change of mind would creep up the Almighty’s agenda Nay, it was! God, not man, had made a plan He had seen what was yet not, the end And thus set to work calling to being, the […]
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Let him that thinks he stands Look not behind or afore Neither to his past failures Nor the unseen future Buried in the business of today His duty is to be sure he’s true Upon an unshakeable podium of rebirth Grounded in a hope that’s not earthly Any feign that he builds Would in time fortify and stand Bearing him through tunnels That exits at terminals of doom station One before has gone ahead in assurance In […]
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