Rejecting Or Accepting?
Do you clearly hear the voice of God when He is speaking,
Do you have an open mind, but truth are always seeking?
And do you humbly give time to others who oppose you,
So that what you’re upholding can be confirmed or proved untrue?
When confronted with a view that by other's is spoken,
Is your mind disturbed by it, are things within awoken?
Do you ask God to confirm whether it's what you should believe,
Always willing to accept if He clearly says, "Receive?"
Or are you found resisting if it isn’t your desire
(At that point) to take the heat of our Lord’s refining fire?
Will you change your mind later, or might that change come too late,
And what might be the price you'd pay should you procrastinate?
So, once our Saviour via another person has appealed
With those words you need to hear that His will might be revealed,
Do your actions show in due course the true state of your heart,
As even further from what’s right you are seen to depart?
Or does it have you changing to more fully fit God’s Word?
Your actions thus the fruit of what the Lord desired heard.
Or do you become more watchful, no longer just content
To remain where you once were instead of where our Lord meant?
Perhaps almost persuaded, but something's holding you back;
Could it be the devil, or is commitment what you lack?
Perhaps a lack of study, or some bias that you hold,
Others who have changed your mind via wrong things that they have told.
Could it be the pull of peers, or your background at the heart?
Could it be you're avoiding what might pull your view apart?
Have you held your view so long that you feel it must be true,
Or put your trust in numbers when that’s not the thing to do?
Do you confuse the message with the one God might have sent,
Thinking that what you know of them, probably means it's bent?
But given earthly vessels are the best that God can use,
Why would you imagine that He has better ones to choose?
God often has a way of choosing those that we would not,
And if left up to our judgment, He might reject the lot.
What if God chose to use you, and you too, weren’t well received.
Would you think His choice was still wrong, because you weren’t believed?
If what we hold is truly right, we don’t have need of fear,
But sadly, when a challenge comes, many uptight appear.
Do you react the same with God when He approaches you?
'Cause how you treat those He sends is a very important clue.
By Lance Landall
This poem was upgraded on 26 November 2022.