My mother
told a story, I’ve always thought was cute.
When I
was in the nursery school, a tale I can’t refute.
She said
that I came home one day and said that was the end.
I
wasn’t going back again. She didn’t have to send
Her little
boy back there again, for I had learned it all.
The
stuff was elementary; the lessons far too small.
I can’t
remember saying it; but thought it must be true.
My
mother wouldn’t tell a tale, if truth was not in view.
She
wouldn’t tell a lie to us, and so it must be right!
I must
have been an “idiot” in everybody’s sight.
It was a
load of nonsense. It couldn’t be the truth.
And others
very much the same when no longer a youth.
They’ve
grown into an adult. But that’s the way they are.
They think
that when it comes to brains, with God they’re on a par!
They think
that they know everything. Their parents all know “squat”!
And as
for God Almighty; they wonder what He’s got?
They think
that He is like them, and thinks the way they do.
But let
me say it bluntly; it’s totally untrue.
He doesn’t
think the way we do. We ask, “What does He think”?
But if
you have all knowledge, in quicker than a wink,
Why should
He have to bother? He needn’t work things out.
If
someone is omniscient, You know beyond a doubt,
The answer
to all questions. You know it instantly.
You do
not have to ask yourself if two and one makes three!
We have to
sit and ponder and weigh up all the odds.
But
knowing without asking; I’m sure there’s only God
Who has
all of the answers and never once was taught.
A very
different paradigm to everything we’ve thought.
Our
answers come by thinking. We need to work things out.
He has
no limitations; He knows beyond a doubt,
The
questions and the answers, before we’ve make a sound.
It’s
very clear He is the one we need to be around.
It seems
we’re like that little boy who thinks he knows it all.
Forgetting
that for everyone, pride comes before a fall.
It happens
to the best of us. This falling into pride.
It
started off with Lucifer; Our Father can’t abide
To see it
in His children. He turns and looks away.
So
better not fall into it, if with Him you would stay.
Jim Strickland – Written 17th November 2011
