PERCEPTIONS

 What is our perception of the people whom we see?

Some of them look wonderful; a bit like you and me?!

Others aren’t so pretty and then we wonder why?

And ask for the opinion of God who reigns on high.

Of course we needn’t bother. We know what He will say.

We only get approval from Him when we obey.

But since we’re seldom listening, the only thing we hear,

Is what we know is not the thing He whispered in our ear!

If this is confusing, then you have got it right.

We’re busy second guessing what‘s pleasing in God’s sight!

The first thing to appreciate is what comprises sin.

Is it a reflection of the mood that we are in?

Is it something that we do to aggravate the Lord?

Or something much more sinister that God will not applaud?

The answer is quite simple; It’s clear as clear can be.

You don’t need rocket science or eschatology.

You only need the Word of God to see as plain as day,

Exactly what is needed, no matter what we say.

The easy to check this out is looking in God’s law.

He wrote it out on Sinai and it’s without a flaw.

He Gave us 10 Commandments that He insists we keep,

Without a word of protest though the content makes us weep.

He’s said we all must keep them. They’re still in force today.

You must not circumnavigate these laws in any way.

Not one of them is optional. Each one is a command.”

And if we break just one of them, we know we will be damned.

We don’t have to agree with them; such thoughts aren’t worth a fig.

But if you ever break one, your problem’s very big.

The Lord will not be pleased with you and you will have to die,

Unless you have an advocate on whom you can rely.

His fees are not expensive. His package comes for free.

But that is not the end of it, for those like you and me.

The truly burning question confronting all of us,

Is wherein lies our future? And should we make a fuss;

If we’re consigned to heaven, or cast into flames?

That’s when we’ll need the certainty of Jesus And His names.

That’s when all our perceptions, whatever they may be,

Will disappear completely in Christ’s reality.

Jim Strickland – written Thursday, 25 August 2011