Some Famous Words

 

 

 

Naked came I into this world

And naked I shall go,

The gist of the words of patient Job

A fact we all need to know.

 

Vanity of vanity; all is vanity

The words of the wise King Solomon

Convinced it was folly he fell for

As he ruled over Israel’s kingdom.

 

Is it nothing to you all ye that pass by?

Words of the prophet Jeremiah,

A reminder to offer a helping hand

To others when going through the fire.

 

Thou art weighed in the balances

And art found wanting,

This prospect of a Babylonian King

Must have been quite daunting.

 

If I perish, I perish, said Queen Esther

What an unselfish resolve!

In breach of the law of a foreign land

For the lives of her people involved.

 

Thou art the man shocked the king

After David had sentenced himself,

Adultery and murder he had committed

And was lacking in spiritual health.

 

 

 

 

God will provide himself

A lamb for the burnt offering,

A prophetic response to the young Isaac

Abraham was committed to this slaying.

 

Whither thou goest, I will go

Words of the grief stricken Ruth

Her resolve to her mother-in-law Naomi

As the book of her name bears proof.

 

Can too walk together

Except they be agreed?

 Amos’ question pertaining to life

Rhetorical in nature but profound indeed.

  

Am I my brother’s keeper?

What petulant insolence!

But this was how Cain answered God

After ending Abel’s existence.

 

Here am I, send me

Isaiah’s response to the heavenly call

To declare to the people the word of Lord:

A people blind with hearts like a wall.

 

 

 

 

Like a lamb led to the slaughter

Spoken by Isaiah in chapter 53

Concerning Jesus the righteous servant

That would die to justify many.

 

Spare the rod and spoil the child

Ancient advice from the wisest man

But rejected today as a backward step

And on faulty ground we now stand.

 

In the sweat of thy face

Thou shalt eat bread

God’s judgment on the first couple

When they disobey what He had said.

 

Choose you this day

Whom ye will serve

This is still as pertinent a question

As in Joshua’s day when we first heard.

  

As for me and my house

We will serve the Lord

So take a leaf out of Joshua’s book

Or better still out of the Holy Word.

 

Stewart Russell © April 2019

 

More than A Collection of Books 2

Joshua continued where Moses had left off

And presided over the conquest of Jericho,

After a great defeat in the campaign at Ai

He conquered the lands where his feet did go.

Judges demonstrates God’s strength

Particularly in the light of human weakness

And each of these leaders that He used

Showed it was God who passed the test.

  

Ruth is the love story of a Gentile girl

Who was married to a prominent Hebrew man,

What is significant with this Old Testament book

Is Boaz and Ruth’s role in the redemptive plan.

1st Samuel chronicles the acts of two kings

King Saul is the first and king David’s the next,

It begins with Samuel’s birth and childhood

Then the acts of those kings both bad and good.

2^nd Samuel is dedicated to David the king,

Part one records his victories and conflicts,

Part two shows his defeats when out of God’s will

And his consequent punishment when he slipped.

1^st Kings tells of the close of king David’s stint

And of the golden reign of king Solomon,

The dividing of Israel into North and South

And of the successive kings of those kingdoms

2^nd Kings continues along this track

And shows the spiritual decline of the leaders,

It chronicles the miraculous ministry of Elisha

And the captivity of Israel and of Judah.

1Chronicles starts out with the genealogies

From Adam to Abraham and Abraham to Israel,

Its focus is spiritual rather than historical

While appearing to repeat 1^st and 2^nd Samuel.

2Chronicles continues from 1^st Chronicles

With a coverage similar to 1^st and 2^nd Kings,

Of Judah’s nineteen kings seven were good

None of Israel’s twenty rulers for God ever stood.

Stewart Russell © March 2017