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