PROCRLAMATION OF THE KING - part 3

 
                        Mathew 7

BEFORE HE COULD SEND HIS DISCIPLES TO SERVE
THEY NEEDED TO HEAR ABOUT JUDGMENT'S RESERVE
THE SECRET TO GREATNESS IS CURBING THE TONGUE
OF LEARNING TO YIELD TO THE WILL OF HIS SON.

SCRIPTURE FORBIDS US FROM HARBORNING A GRUDGE
OF FINDING A FAULT AND BECOMING THEIR JUDGE
THE MOTIVES IN MAN GOD PERCEIVES FROM THE START
SO BEFORE PASSING JUDGMENT EXAMINE YOUR HEART.

THE NEED FOR DISCERNMENT GOD GIVES IF WE ASK
THE SEEKING AND KNOCKING IS PART OF THAT TASK
WHEN SIN LIKE A LOG IS REMOVED FROM OUR SIGHT
WE CAN HELP THOSE AROUND IN A SIMILAR PLIGHT.

THE PHARISEES SOUGHT TO MAKE RULES OF THEIR OWN
THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE WAS ALL THAT WAS SHOWN
BUT GOD'S HOLY STANDARD TRANSFORMS US WITHIN
SO OTHERS EXPERIENCE TRUE FREEDOM FROM SIN.

THE FRUIT-BEARING CHRISTIANS WHO KNOCK, SEEK AND FIND
WILL SHARE FISH AND BREAD WITH THE NEEDY IN MIND
BUT SAD IS THE STORY THAT OFTEN WE SHARE
A STONE OR A SERPENT WITH SO LITTLE CARE.

THE ROAD TO SURRENDER IS NARROW AND STEEP
THE CROSS OF REDEMPTION IS PRICELESS NOT CHEAP
BUT MOST CHOOSE THE WIDE ROAD WITH NO THOUGHT AHEAD
THAT HELL AND DESTRUCTION SOON FOLLOW THE DEAD.

THE FOOLISH MAN BUILDS ON A SURFACE OF SAND
THE WISE ON THE ROCK WHOSE FOUNDATION WILL STAND
THE CHOICE THAT WE MAKE WILL DETERMINE THE PLACE
BETWEEN FALLING AWAY OR WINNING THE RACE.
--B. Pent