The Matter vs Matter

 

 

The heart of the matter

Is who created matter

Since matter creating matter

Is monkey chatter.

 

It does not make sense

Like monkey chatter,

To a monkey, chatter might

But not to another.

 

Matter versus matter

See want I mean?

One of them must be material

Thus, physically seen.

 

The other is intangible

And only perceived;

It is the matter about matter

And what is believed.

 

Two sides to the matter

And here is one side:

It is that matter created matter

Or strongly implied.

 

As a matter of fact,

Many will argue that

And will contend vehemently

It is a proven fact.

 

Bring the proof, I say,

Yes, please bring it on

For in such you will only prove

Brain matter is gone.

 

Why, that is matter too:

A collection of cells

Which in the case of some people

Are not doing well.

 

 

 

I refer to those people

Whose god is matter,

Scattered brains, I’d call them

Or monkey chatter.

 

Does it matter to you

Concerning the matter

That matter could create matter,

Or no matter?

 

Well, it matters to me

And I will tell you why,

Some would believe utter nonsense

Yet God they’d deny.

 

If matter made matter

It should still be going on

But I guess the time for such to happen

Are billions of years gone.

 

If you want to see it again

Be around a billion years

And matter creating more matter

Must surely reappear.

 

For after all, I am told,

It’s only a matter of time

Just hang in there and hunker down;

It will take some grind.

 

 

 

The matter versus matter

Matters least to me

For surely matter creating matter

Is an impossibility.

 

Stewart Russell © November 17, 2025

 

Something to Think About

 

 

I have often heard it said

Every fool has his own sense

But no one chooses a fool

To argue one’s defense.

 

Someone makes a statement

That many take for granted

And if that someone is “someone”

That statement is oft repeated.

 

Per chance if there is a query

We may begin to re-think

But the rule of thumb usually is

We mostly with it sync.

 

 

Same thing but only different

Could there be some proof

That renders to the apparent idiocy

Some validity with truth?

 

If it is something tangible

There is likely to be difficulty there,

However, if it is language related

We may have something going here.

 

There are many statements

That can be said in different ways,

Same thing only different

Could certainly apply here.

 

Same meaning different words

I am so happy for synonyms,

I can mean the exact same thing

Though I say it differently from him.

 

It’s a true fact

Tell me is there another kind?

Yet this statement is oft repeated

By persons all the time.

 

Perhaps it’s to prove a point

That lacks credible support,

To send the sincerest of signals

The speaker is not making sport.

 

The left foot right shoe thing

Where the left shoe is the right,

Well if your custom is wearing shoes

I am sure you’ll get this insight.

 

 

There is no absolute truth

The brilliant ones will tell you that

And before you think it through

You would accept it as a fact.

 

If you would only stop to examine

The lunacy of this statement,

You would discover just as I did

Something is underlying its intent.

 

If there is no absolute truth

Then this statement cannot be true,

It is a contradiction of itself

I can see that.  Can’t you?

 

I always tell lies

That my friend is impossible,

For if that statement could be true

“Always” would be a deductible.

 

Now if that statement is a lie

As I truly believe it to be,

In that person is a redeeming feature

I trust we all can see.

 

 

There are two sides to a story

I am sure you’ve heard this before

But you and I both I know

There are sometimes more.

 

And sometimes I might add

None of them is true

Since the sources might be speaking

From a self-opinionated view

 

It is true that it is wrong

We can definitely take that,

When truth points out the wrong

That’s an unmistakable fact.

 

Truth must be the benchmark

For me and for you,

It does not depend on opinion

Like you and I do.

 

We must pay for everything

Meaning that nothing in life is free,

I now invite you to Jesus

Come to him now and see.

 

 

For us he paid the ultimate price,

On Calvary’s cross he gave his life,

Nothing else could ever suffice,

Do not by this statement be enticed.

 

Salvation is free, is free indeed,

Jesus paid it all to meet our need,

If anyone demands a payment as seed

That is to satisfy his insatiable greed.

 

Logical contradictions

To this I have given some thought,

Perhaps it might be, I suggest,

Logic with contradictions fraught.

 

If logic can be a contradiction

How then can it be logic?

Now I am getting in over my head

Here is where I exit. 

 

 

It is not that I’m running away

I’m just fostering a little thought

Regarding what we’ve long accepted

And into what we have bought.

 

Stewart Russell © March 2019

 

The Other Side of Justice

The soul that sins shall die

That’s what justice says,

The wages of sin is death

That’s what justice pays.

So if I get my fair deserts

Justice has been done,

The system is working well

I should like the way it runs.

Justice is what we call for

Justice is always fair,

I’m talking about God’s justice

I want make that clear.

The truth of the matter is

All justice must be fair,

If the fairness is missing

Then the justice disappeared.

Lawyers are about justice

That is what we hear

But often about justice

They don’t seem to care.

They fight for their client

Whether he is wrong or right,

At times though he is wrong

They still win the fight.

“O he is a great lawyer!”

His praises would be sung,

But the truth of the matter is

Justice was not done.

It was some technicality

On which he was able to win,

This is man’s pseudo justice

It’s not so in the case with sin.

There’s no such thing with God

No technicality or flaw,

Adam and Eve transgressed

And felt the weight of the law.

First, fellowship was broken

Between themselves and God,

This of course gave reason

For the devil to applaud.

He is that sinister attorney

That misrepresents each case,

His clients are made to suffer

Even to the point of disgrace.

But there is another justice

It is called God’s grace,

It takes the path through mercy

And of injustice there’s no trace.

Mercy has stepped in

Though we should have died,

Justice was still carried out

That’s why Jesus was crucified.

Someone had to die

It should have been us,

That someone took our place

That someone was Jesus.

Mercy bridged the gap

Between justice and grace,

Before, a frowning Judge

But now with a smiling face.

We really should have died

But mercy stepped right in,

Now we don’t have to pay

The penalty for our sin.

Out of all this emerges

God’s magnanimous grace

Expressed to all the repentant

In our Saviour’s smiling face.

“Come unto me,” he says

“And I will give you life.”

A gracious call you will agree

And end to all sin’s strife.

Right now it’s a promise

But a promise that is guaranteed

And the way the days are flying

It’s coming at greet speed.

Not only will we not die

As God’s mercy has ensured

But eternal life is ours

God’s grace has that in store.

For just as Christ has risen

One day the dead will rise,

And those that are still alive

Will meet him in the skies.

Grace is the side of justice

That made this possible,

Now we who were once estranged

Have become God’s people.

Justice is what we deserved

Mercy our deserts deferred

But on the other side of justice

Grace is what God conferred.

Justice says “death”

Therefore the Saviour’s dying

Mercy says “not death”

Hence the Saviour’s rising

Grace says “everlasting life”

Thus the Saviour’s returning

Justice and Grace: two sides of a coin

With Mercy: the circumference,

From death to life: the Father’s reward

For the soul that chooses repentance.

Stewart Russell © September 2018