Matthew 10:16

 

Persecutions Are Coming

16 “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

 

Where do sheep gather most … is it in the church?

 

Who guards and feeds them daily … is it not the Priest?

 

He supplies the daily sacrifice and delivers from the curse?

 

To supply peace and serenity … to the ones in need

 

 

 

Dreams’ visiting in the night, as the unexpected appears

 

Are they messages of sub-consciousness or just a chosen lot?

 

Here to be understood and lived because all are so familiar

 

Are there accidents in life or is there a prepared plot?

 

 

 

Are not wolves preying on the weak and ready to kill?

 

Are they not travelling in packs and seldom caught alone?

 

Is not the battle of the sheep a constant struggle uphill?

 

And is not the Shepard their shield and their fate forgone?

 

 

 

Are not the fallen and the wounded observed by vultures?

 

Are not the helpless and in need the most vulnerable?

 

Are not traditions in the church formed into a culture?

 

That self-sufficiency rules the day and all things are possible

 

 

 

It is the world of religion not the most cruel?

 

Is not here decided the worth of each person alive?

 

Is not judgmentally that provides all the fuel?

 

To keep hatred’s constant flow undergirded by strife

 

 

 

For God’s sake we are hated as for His Son we stand

 

Give and take is no issue in service to all we meet

 

Love for all supplied … as a simple God’s demand

 

As dying to self and feelings becomes a simple deed

 

 

 

We are told to flee when persecution hits us 

 

But there’s only one place to go and that’s to Him

 

The Creator of it all: the good, the bad, the ugly

 

Through His dimensional Will as a reflection of the grim

 

 

 

A field of sorrow plowed in despair’s syndrome

 

Who knows all the reasons for them that suffer?

 

There always is tomorrow, a mysterious honeycomb

 

and prayer in the morning is today’s only buffer

 

 

 

Hour after hour Eternity exposes a little more

 

Amazingly little positive to them lost in sin

 

Part of it all unseen through a closed door

 

That only cracks for a few residing just in Him

 

 

 

Later in the day we’re being prepared for the next

 

Sleep will beset each of us to be renewed again

 

One step forward and two steps back, what the heck?

 

As long as we get again to the place where we’ve been

 

 

 

Jan Wienen