The Twins

I met the twins some time ago

And they were so alike,

They were almost identical

And they were my delight.

A timely meeting that was

Definitely at the right time,

I was on my way to God knows where

And I met them along the line.

I had become quite delusional

Skepticism had taker o’er,

Everything had become a fake

Nothing made sense any more.

I was getting my just deserts

The twins made me to understand

Such was the recompense of those

That followed the devil’s plan.

‘There’s a better way,” they said to me.

“You need not continue like this,

You’d be miserable all your life

And at the end heaven you’d miss.

“What’s the alternative?” I replied,

“Nothing has worked, you see,

I even tried church at one time

And that too disappointed me.”

At first it seem to be all right

And I tried desperately to reform

But soon that too became meaningless

And I struggled to conform.

That was not for me for sure

So I decided, time to move on

But right now I am at my wits' end

And feeling rather forlorn.”

Wits' end corner is the place to be

To access the benefits from the twins,

It is when one comes to the end of self

That one can begin to see one’s sin.

It is then that Mercy shows up

And tells us what God has done,

We should have paid for our sin

But God placed it on His Son.

Then Grace joins in and informs

It was because of God’s great love

That Jesus was sent to save the lost

When he descended from above.

Yes! Mercy and Grace met with me

And helped me to understand,

It’s not the church but Jesus Christ

That’s the heart of redemption’s plan.

“You need Christ,” they said to me,

Confess your sin to him,

Believe in your heart for salvation

And be saved from all your sin.”

God’s mercy saves from eternal death

For that death is the wages of sin,

God grace gives to us eternal life

When from our sin we turn to Him.

The wonderful twins: Mercy and Grace

Which always walk hand in hand,

The product of God’s redeeming love

Manifested in Christ to reconcile man.

I met these twins some time ago

And now I never walked alone,

Mercy and Grace always walk with me

On my way to my heavenly home.

Stewart Russell © February 2019