For the Love of Us All

WITNESS


6-3-13

DEATH AND LIFE

On that dark gray/ black afternoon

A man hung dying on the cross

Many thought abandoned by God

At that last moment

Even Christ thought he was abandoned

“My God, My God

Why did you abandon me”

But we know

That he was not abandoned

We know

That Christ

Did arise to live again

To live in eternal glory

With his Father

How often

Do we feel abandoned in life

Abandoned by our family and friends

Abandoned by our church

Maybe we even feel

Abandoned by God

We know through faith

That like Christ

That that

Is not the end of the story

We are

Never abandoned by God

We are his children

And he is madly in love with us

We know

Because Moses tells us so,

“For the Lord your God

Is a merciful God

He will not abandon or destroy you

Or forget the covenant

With your forefathers

Which he confirmed to them by oath”                                  Deuteronomy 4:31

And we know

Because our God

Is a God

Who keeps his promises

“For physical training

Is of some value

But godliness has value

For all things

Holding promise

For both the present life

And the life to come”                                                  1 Timothy 4:8

I suggest to you

That if there is any abandoning

Going on here

It is by us

By our society

By our world

Building a world on materialism

Building a world on sex and violence

Building a world on “scientific” miracles

And leaving God

Totally out of the mix

“The spirit clearly says

That in later times

Some will

Abandon the faith

And follow deceiving spirits

And things taught by demons”                                             1 Timothy 4

I have NO IDEA

When the end is coming

And neither does anyone else

Christ himself said,

“No one knows

About that day or hour

Not even the angels in heaven

Not the Son

But only the Father”                                                 Matthew 24:36

Abandoned by God---hardly

Us abandoning God---my friend---I think

It has already happened

Dear Lord---I pray---we pray

Our house is in ruins

Please come and repair it for us

For we do not know the way

But then---you already told us

“I am the way, the truth, and the life”

Help us to recommit to life Lord

Doing it---YOUR WAY

Robert P. Wallman

8-16-11

Ps        WITNESS        6-3-13

“I tell you the truth-whoever hears the word and believes him-

Who has sent me has ETERNAL LIFE-and will not be condemned-

He has crossed over from DEATH TO LIFE”

John 24:35

“For whoever finds me FINDS LIFE-and receives favor from the Lord”

Proverbs 8:35