The Origin of Thought

One day

Just like that

I got to thinking

And I wondered,

“Where did thought come from?”

Then I thought

Of a number of ideas

And I thought

I would examine some

Of course thought

Didn’t begin

With you or me

But it must have come

From something

From somewhere

From someone

Maybe even divinity

Then I thought

Of the two main ideas

So different

In so many ways

There is the evolutionist

He has an opinion

But then there is the Creationist

He respects God’s dominion

The first story

Started with nothing

And no one

And suddenly out of nothing

Came something

And the first dawn

Everything must have

A first cause

They are bold to say

But don’t

Appear to bother

When from that

They sway

Of course

I take note

That it says

“Everything”

Therefore I am pleased

To remind them

That God is not

A thing

But for the moment

Let’s play along

However one point lost

There goes the ping!

After that first

Big bang

It took many a year

For evolution

To occur

And more things to appear

Of course or off course

It still puzzles me

That to get something

Out of nothing

We just need time

Isn’t that tricky?

How much time?

Billions of years

Just give it time

And out of nothing

Something will appear

I still have a problem

As it relates to thought

How many years

Would this have taken?

How many years

Would they have sought?

Let’s leave

The inanimate

Let’s switch to life

Here the evolutionist

Encounters more strife

The primordial soup

The first sign of life

Cooked up

Before man even took a wife

Of what was it made?

That’s difficult to tell

Out of what did it come?

By now you know that well

Out of nothing

Comes something

Forget the first cause

It’s only

For the very beginning

That we put it on pause

Thereafter it’s clear

Anyone can see

That means you and me

And even a dummy

But you still have not addressed

The very first thought

And by now I sensed

You’re feeling distraught

Just like the student

Who takes a very hard test

And only writes his name

That being his best

Or maybe like Job

Taking God’s exam

Couldn’t give a single answer

Poor Job in a jam!

The origin of matter

The very first thought

The origin of life

A supreme intelligence wrought

This brings us to the crux of the matter

Time to leave behind the spurious chatter

God the Creator

Is the Originator

Of thought

He created heaven and earth

And into this world

Human life brought

  

It’s a human thing

You must have recognized

God is its first cause

That you need not despise

Let us make man

That was a thought expressed

Unlike all things created

This was a process

The others he spoke

And they came into being

Of the earth He made man

His hands did the forming

Then into man

Life God breathed

Therein the expression

Of God’s thought was revealed

Out of man

God formed his mate

With whom he could live

And his thoughts communicate

Which makes the more sense?

Tell me the truth

This evolution thing

Or the biblical proof

Out of God came everything

All things material

And human life

What a beautiful thought

When God gave Adam

Eve to wife

God created man

With the ability to think

Then He gave him instructions

Thus the first moral link

Satan came on the scene

Right there in Eden

And a contrasting thought

Cost them the garden

Satan got them to think

Different from what God instructed

Eve disobeyed God

And Adam obligated

No doubt they rued the day

When God they disobeyed

And wished that Satan’s thought

They had pushed away

Just a thought:

Proverbs 14:12  There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Proverbs 16:25  There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death

The fact it comes twice

Should definitely suffice

As adequate advice

That to obey God is better than sacrifice

Stewart Russell © October 2017