Lies Ahead or Lies Ahead

 

 

What lies ahead?

We cannot and do not know,

The future is in the Master’s hand

And He has ordered it so.

 

God’s Word reveals the truth

We need to know in our time,

The time allotted to every human

As reflected in the daily grind.

 

We do not know what lies ahead

Except for what’s revealed,

Revealed through the Holy Word

To them that dare believe.

 

Some dare to make-believe

They know what lies ahead

But they that be alive know no more

Than they that be right now dead.

 

None knows what lies ahead:

Not a single woman or man!

But God does, His Word assures us

And accordingly, he planned.

 

 

What lies are ahead

Is distinctively different,

Compared to what we started with,

This has a dishonest bent.

 

The first case spoke to facts

That to us are yet unknown,

The latter speaks to stark untruths

That are not yet in our zone.

 

 

Predictions of every sort,

Even prophecies in the church,

Lies present, past and future

Told by lying experts.

 

Lies ahead as in the verb

Versus lies ahead as in the noun,

Regarding the latter I am confused;

I guess you could call me clown.

 

Lies ahead as in the future

Lies ahead as being fake,

The former looms unpredictably

Both are too much to take.

 

What lies ahead is fateful

And what lies are ahead are too,

Both seem to be inextricably linked

At least to me, if not you.

 

Stewart Russell © February 20, 2023