Faith in Nothing

 

 

 

Faith in nothing

Rather than faith in God

Is a moronic belief acknowledgement

I can’t help but appal.

 

And to base such

On the scholarship of science

Is to climb to the dizzying heights

Of appalling nonsense.

 

When did nothing

Stop becoming something

And start reproducing itself

As simply nothing?

 

Faith in nothing

Rather than faith in God

Does not make any kind of sense

At all, at all, at all.

 

And more incredibly,

Scientists actually believe this

And often frown on theists

And God dismiss!  

 

The heavens declare

And scientists should see

That nothing could not be credited

For this reality.

 

Faith in something

However nonsensical it may be

Has considerably more going for it

Than a nothing reality.

 

 

When nothing is the matter

Then anything can be

And when everything is nothing

This is insanity.

 

Need I say more

Regarding faith in nothing?

No, not until such faith adherents show

Nothing producing something.

 

Faith in nothing?

Rather than faith in God

Is like a self-made computer

Built from nothing at all.

 

Stewart Russell © May 23, 2024

 

Failures Trust Jesus

 

 

Failures trust Jesus,

This is a view

By those who vehemently believe

That’s all they can do.

 

Jesus is a copout

For those who fail

And Christianity as some see it

Is a whale of a tale.

 

No wonder females

Outnumber males

For church is a good place to go

Whenever you fail.

 

Who needs Jesus

If they’re getting through?

No, Jesus props up failures-

That’s their view.

 

Come all gullible

And you, failures too!

Jesus is always there for such

Like you.

 

It’s not scholarship:

Creation picture,

And right from the beginning

There’s utter failure.

 

Two in Eden’s Garden

Created to fail,

With a temptation so colossal

When Satan assailed.

 

 

Failures they were

And were thrown out,

That Christianity is for failures

Is without a doubt.

 

“If you’ve tried everything

And everything has failed”,

Became a popular church slogan

On the evangelism trail.

 

“If everything has failed”

Suggests last resort,

Jesus is not for the successful

Would be an apt retort.

 

Failures trust Jesus,

This is a view

By those who vehemently believe

That’s all they can do.

 

This position is suspect

But it is also truth,

Bear with me a little longer

While I supply the proof.

 

Refocus your lens

And you’ll see the picture,

Without the Lord Jesus Christ

One is a failure.

 

Nothing truly satisfies

Outside of him

Simply because he is the only cure

For our sin.

 

 

Therein is our failure:

Our susceptibility to sin

And the only remedy there is,

Is to come to him.

 

Notice I said ‘come’

And not ‘go’

Because his indwelling Spirit

Witnesses to ‘I know’.

 

All are failures

Ever since the first Adam

But the second Adam, Jesus Christ,

Is the success plan.

 

So, failures trust Jesus

For their eventual success

And the truth of the matter is,

This success is the best.

 

All success is failure

If not Jesus appropriate

Thus, we need him in our life,

That failure to negate.

 

Stewart Russell © December 7, 2024

 

Nothing

 

 

 

Sometimes our scholarship

Goes right to our head,

And we replace the explicit word

For what we think instead...

 

And give scholastic interpretations

Where none was required

To render a meaning

That our religious sect desires.

 

Simple words like “all”

Will throw us down

And drive us to Greek and Hebrew

As we try dancing around.

 

Maybe another time

We will have a look at “all”

But it is the word “nothing”

With which I am enthralled.

 

Once we couldn’t use a word

To explain the meaning of the word,

That by any teacher

Would be considered absurd.

The dictionary defines nothing

As “nothing at all”

Maybe such dictionaries

Need to be recalled.

 

I have a different view

From what some would advance,

A universal understanding

Needs not be enhanced.

 

Nothing means “nothing”!

That is what “nothing” means,

There is nothing more to “nothing”

And nothing more to be gleaned.

 

Who shall separate us

From the love of God?

What type of question is herein asked

If you said rhetorical, you I applaud.

Eight questions are asked

In a single verse

And the obvious answer is “nothing”.

No apology for being terse.

 

 The opening question is who

But all of the others imply what,

Go now to Romans 8 verse 35

And find the exact spot.

 

Sometimes the word “nothing”

Can be difficult to understand

So the writer goes on

With a clearly thought out plan.

 

Two more verses are used

Read verses 38 and 39

And “nothing” is the answer

That comes back every time.

 

In this Paul was persuaded

That the answer was “nothing”

But it is too good to be true

So we can’t stop digging.

Okay nothing Is understood

But what about no one?

And to this I would like to say

Come on, be gone!

 

But as a good teacher

Paul would never do that

So he enlightens one and all

With yet another fact.

 

Nor any other creature

Is his answer to this,

That should cover everyone

Unless there is something I missed.

 

But some are still desperate

And in one last attempt

Will suggest the person himself,

That’s the “who” they present.

 

Paul’s response to that

Is “nor any other creature” again

So be happy in Jesus

And avoid this stress and strain.

 

Nothing means nothing

Please understand

That God is more than able

To accomplish His plan.

 

Stewart Russell © October 2019

 

Mindless and Faithless

 

 

Believers need to think

While thinkers need to believe

That every gift that either has

From God, they have received.

 

The function of heart and brain

Is necessary for these two

Since either one without the other

Presents a lopsided view.

 

The world frowns on believers

And opines there are no thinkers there,

How can they actually believe such nonsense

With such reverential fear?

 

In many ways, I dare say,

The world is being vindicated

For many believers jettison their brains

And to men become subjugated.

 

Quoting “the just shall walk by faith”

And using this as an excuse

To exercise their faithfulness of heart

While a functional brain they refuse.

 

No place for thinkers here

For here, thinkers do not belong,

Just exercise their unquestionable faith

And constantly pray to be strong.

 

The other side is just as bad

That pushes all brain and no heart,

Notice despite their myriad PhD’s

The world is noticeably dark.

 

 

Brain dead does not a heart support

Nor the other way around,

One without the other, you must agree,

Will pull a body down.

 

 

Mindlessness pervades the church

While faithlessness, the world,

O for eyes that would open and see,

One without the other is absurd.

 

Come ye apart is not to segregate,

Just like love cannot manifest hate

But for believers to reach out to thinkers

And in the love of Christ relate.

 

To tell the good news of salvation

That thinkers would come to believe

With minds open to Jesus Christ

Who sinners will receive.

 

The Father epitomizes scholarship

He is the only omniscient God,

Without Him there is no science

And this we should applaud.

 

So, while believers need to think

Thinkers need to believe

The message of eternal salvation

And with repentant hearts receive.

Mindlessness in the church

Is like a heart without a brain

And such a situation, I do declare,

Puts a body under strain.

Faithlessness in the world

Is like a brain without a heart,

No wonder there is little compassion

And the world is so dark.

 

“Put on your thinking caps!”

A word to the misguided believer,

And to the thinker, I admonish,

It’s time you were a believer.

 

Stewart Russell © April 22, 2021

 

Winning

 

 

For many in this current era,

Winning is just about all

And how elated these people are

When their lotto numbers are called!

 

Yes, the current vibe is winning!

Winning the competition!

Especially around Christmas time

It is an addictive tradition.

 

We just bought a new bed

And Courts gave us a lot of forms,

I must tell you the wife fill them all out

Though this is not our norm.

 

Yes, we also caught the bug

And we are hoping that we win,

Though for us winning is not everything,

We hope we win something.

 

 

Some are so bent on winning

They often win less than they lose

But they are so hooked and addicted

That they just cannot refuse.

 

Even in a simple little argument

Some people will argue all day long,

And given their bent on winning

It is unnecessarily prolonged.

 

Life seems to be about winning!

For students it’s a scholarship

And some will burn the midnight oil

To ensure they get the pick.

 

“You are moving with a winner!”

You may have seen this in an Ad

And businesses are bold to promote it

Even though their service is bad.

 

 

There are some churches

That talk a lot about breakthrough,

You simply give a tithe or sow a seed

And winning is what you do.

 

It is the primitive behavior

Which is the survival of the fittest!

If they are only ten that can make it

Then “I” must be on that list.

 

Very little thought is given, though,

To consider beyond our time

And eternal matters are overlooked

With winning on our mind.

 

The victory that Jesus wrought

On the cross at Calvary

Is considered less critically important

Than the daily lottery.

 

For occupying the human mind

Is winning on the whole,

And his sole occupation is winning

Even at the risk of his own soul.

 

But what does it profit him

If he should win the entire world

And in such an event

Lose his own soul?

 

Stewart Russell © December 7, 2022