Doubt, I do not praise you, you're not my friend.
How can I be friends with one who wants to kill me while I sleep?
Let me be bordered by the brightness of well-founded faith in the Risen Lord, Jesus Christ, and His word.
And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
Let doubters always take my hand,
yet doubt itself I cannot stand
It's a maggot eating at your soul
a drying wind on once-good soil
Men and women, stand to fight!
hold ranks against the death of light
though the public voice speaks well of doubt
be strong, and drive the dark thing out.
Celebrity, she breeds with lies
she's lied to you before
remember well the trade she plies-
she's Babylon, the whore.
Replace the torch of living trust
let shine the blade shook free of rust
let hearts beat freely as they should,
God is now here, and He is good.
4 comments:
You should have put the rest on facebook... its good.
Done, thanks.
Very good.
Our pastor spoke on doubt today. Basically he said that for someone truly seeking God doubt causes our faith to be strengthened because we will seek out the truth, and God is truth, so doubt will do the work of revealing more of God's truth.
But too often doubt isn't a mental wrestling match, but rather a moral one. He said that many times when people proclaim a long intense intellectual struggle with doubt he's later found out that their doubt wasn't rooted in a mental struggle, but a moral one.
I hadn't heard it put quite this way before, or maybe I was just listening better today. It's weird, because as I was getting ready for church today I was thinking about friends I've known that have walked away from the Lord. I've wondered why? I mean, seriously, why? So it was weird to hear the pastor open his message with the topic of doubt and then this afternoon I read your poem about doubt. Hmmm, wonder what God is doing? I don't doubt it's good whatever it is. :o)
Yes, I wrote this after reading several statements by church leaders and musicians about how they wanted to ask the "Hard Questions" (which usually means, in my experience, points of conflict with the spirit of the age, which already have "hard answers" in scripture and orthodox christian doctrine). And then they collectively whine about them for a while and decide there are no answers but "love" which they don't define but which ends up meaning that the world-spirit was right all along. And then they act like they're a persecuted minority, when really they've just switched sides to play for the MAJORITY team (the "world").
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