Poem From My Pen: "Where Are You Going?"

Copyright 12.01.2012 © Cynthia S. Groff

Brain - what corrupt thinking
Far distant from righteous ways
The prince of lies has trapped you
Leaving you in a pitiful daze

Eyes - placed in your head
What are you seeking in this world
Waxing and waning in faith
God’s judgment will be unfurled

Tongue - given you to speak
Wags with words lacking of wisdom
Curdled with ignorance
Not fit for your Creator’s kingdom

Heart - beating within your chest
Put there to sustain your life
Each set of beats keeping time
While you heap on continuous strife

Hands – designed to give and take
For what are you grasping
Things that perish with time
Corruptible and never lasting

Feet - given you to walk
Where are you trodding
Wandering away from God
Giving in to Satan’s prodding

Shoulders - burdened with sin
They were not meant to remain
Jesus Christ suffered and died
Debt paid in full to remove the stain

Soul - God loves you so
Sin can’t hold you without permission
God gave you the heart and mind
You’ve a free will to make the decision

Knees - created to bend
Fall down on them and pray
Repent and receive forgiveness
Urgently without delay

You – decide where you will go
Soon comes death’s bell
One of two places you choose
Living in Heaven or dying in Hell

Spiritual Birth - How it Occurs - Part 1

John 1:12-13 ~

(12) "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become to sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: (13) which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."

Jesus Christ welcomes anyone who will accept Him as their Personal Saviour. Every person who comes to an age of understanding and is capable of making that decision, by his/her own free will, has the "power" to believe that Christ is the Son of God. When we accept Him as the Lord of our life we receive a "new life" from God. Through faith in Jesus Christ, we are changed from the inside out. Our sinful attitudes, desires, and motives are replaced with new attitudes, desires, and motives - good ones.

When we are born (water birth) we have entered into a physical family - that of our earthly parents (verse 13). When we are reborn (spiritually - born again) we enter into the family of God as His child (verse 12).

1 John 3:9(2) ~

"Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God."

The words "doth not commit sin" and "cannot sin" in this verse tells us that a child of God's (born-again believer) does not make it his/her practice to sin. S/he doesn't become indifferent to Father God's moral law. Every believer will still sin; however, they work for victory to conquer sin and not repeat the same offenses to God.