THE WEB OF DECEPTION

Deceptive thoughts that trick the mind

Like flies caught in a spider’s web

Try hard to shake its silken grip

And soon its venom leaves you dead!

How troublesome this rude disguise

Intriguing lures that bate it's prey

The Serpent robs all hope of joy

And leaves the heart too weak to pray.

Yet in this net of hopelessness

While groping for the Light

The One Who calmed the raging storm

Stands with the warrior in the fight!

God is the Way through blinding storms

His Truth will set the captive free

Stand in the power of Jesus Name

And claim by faith the Victory!

Ben Pent

WHY ME?

Along the shores of time the wounded lie
All torn apart with little hope, they sigh!
The battle scars of life seem oft in vain
Confused, at times, that maybe God's to blame!

But why this cross that we must bear today
That seems so heavy and so hard to pray?
Is there no promise that will calm the heart
Before all hopes and dreams are torn apart?

Some things in life are hard to understand
We fail to note the reason God has planned
Omniscience charts the course that brings Him praise
He is the Source of strength through all our days.

The cup that Jesus drank was for our sake
That through His blood eternal life partake
The trials we all face are here to show
So others find the Christ we claim to know.
B. Pent

HALLELUJAH! HE IS RISEN!

Night had settled in Judea 

Death had claimed the crucified 
But the stone rent from its mooring 
Where the Lord lay wrapped inside. 

Soldiers kept a careful vigil 
Pilate's seal could not be torn 
But the power of God descended 
On that early Easter morn. 

Jesus rose the mighty Victor! 
Death no longer held its prey 
Captive souls once held in bondage 
Were released that Easter day. 

Saints and angels join the chorus 
Christ has risen from the dead 
Heaven echoes back the story 
He has risen as He said. 

Chorus 
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 
Christ is risen from the dead 
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 
He has risen as He said. 
--B. Pent

LIFE'S STORMS

Does the cross that you carry
Seem too heavy to bear
Is the road far too narrow
You are called on to share?

Is there sickness or sorrow
That has knocked at your door
Or have friends disappointed
And are caring no more?

Life has its moments of pain
Robbing the heart of its rest
Storm clouds may threaten the calm
Keeping from doing your best.

Jesus walks into life's storm
He will not turn you away.
Reach for the peace that He gives.
You will find calm for the day!
--B. Pent

I TOUCHED YOUR HANDS

I touched your little hands today
So soft with new-born skin
God took the very best He had
So you would live to honor Him.

I touched your busy hands today
So carefree through those early years
And when you fell and scraped your knees
I picked you up and wiped your tears.

I touched your youthful hands today
I was so proud to see you grow
In wisdom and in knowledge too
So Christ through you the world could know.

I touched your calloused hands today
So hard with work and family play
Yet often through the course of life
I saw you pause to kneel and pray.

I touched your aging hands today
The sunset years have scared your brow.
Still I can see your course through life
Has won the victory here and now.

I touched His nail-scared hands today
As I walked down the streets of gold.
He called me from His royal throne
"Come in, my child, and welcome Home!"
--B. Pent

LIFE'S JOURNEY

The darkening clouds loom overhead
We see the sunset turn deep red
In silence we are left to wonder
Why we tread this earth to ponder
Life's mysterious, twisted road
With its hard, unyielding load.

Is it chance that rules our journey
With a heart bereft and lonely?
Does earth's music sound discordant
As we travel through each moment?
Or is hope our only refuge
From life's threatening, stormy deluge?

Then a voice like distant thunder
Speaks above man's hopeless blunder
With an offer that's transforming
That will change our night to morning
For the path God leads to glory
Is the victor's promised story.
--B. Pent