The Day-to-Day Grind

Faith versus fear

Belief versus doubt

And every day we wonder

How the battle will turn out.

This is a see-saw battle

As it turns out for most

At times up and sometimes down

Depending on the host.

It’s like partner dominoes

Two versus two,

We can be quite fatigue

When the day is through.

Faith combines with belief

To get us through the day

Fear gets together with doubt

And to thwart us in the way.

Often we will fall heavily

On doubt’s slippery slope

And fear will cloud our minds

Making it difficult to cope.

We are afraid to get up

Our faith has taken a knocking,

Our belief begins to waver

And our ship begins a-rocking.

The day is long and dreary

The ending seemingly distant

But the fears of oncoming night

Are also quite dominant.

Fear and doubt are winning

The soul is quite disturbed,

Faith and belief are drifting

No visibility of the Word.

But the Holy Spirit is faithful

And he is always on time,

Suddenly with the Word

He reshapes the believer’s mind.

  

Belief gives rise to faith

And the fallen begins to stand

As the Word brings into focus

God’s omnipotent hand.

Another victory for faith

Belief is established again,

Prospects are bright for the day

With hope for the night in train.

The just shall walk by faith

Belief is essential to this,

Put fear and doubt to the sword

And from evil desist.

Stewart Russell © October 2018