It's Your Move

 

 

 

God made the first move

And He created,

Lucifer pushed back next

And he retaliated.

And thus began the war

On the draughts board of life,

Satan in his deception

Causing more and more strife.

The god of all selfishness

Versus the God of all Love,

Lucifer, son of the morning

Cast from heaven above.

A silly, selfish ambition

Beginning with the pronoun “I”

Saw war occur in heaven,

On earth many would die.

Victory number 1 to God

One-third of the angels fell,

Satan lost his place in heaven

And God created hell.

Satan became real mean

And got stuck in an evil groove,

Meanwhile God created man

Satan made the next move.

He pushed at Eve in the Garden

And got her to disobey,

Again selfishness reared its head

Satan had won that day.

Then God made a decision

To ban man from the Garden,

Adam and Eve were banished

Satan had started his kingdom.

And so he pushed and pushed

And God countered by and by,

Cain killed Abel in his hatred

Yet another reason to sigh.

  

But another son was born

He sought the way of God’s word,

And round about that time

Men called on the name of the Lord.

But Satan was not finished yet

He had a few more moves to make,

He moved men to be very evil

And God’s word to forsake.

Every imagination was evil

Oh, they did their very worst,

God’s next move was a flood

For rain this was the very first.

For forty days it rained

All but eight souls were lost,

Satan had ruined the day for man

But God was still the boss.

Noah came forth from the ark

And continued to walk the walk,

Even though he got drunk one day

And there was a lot of talk.

Satan was still determined

That he must have the last move,

But God was not sidetracked

He had some things to prove.

For a moment Satan thought

That all was going his way,

But God had moved to Abraham

That was a significant day.

God was setting up the devil

And he didn’t even know,

In Genesis 3:15 God prophesied

About the serpent’s fatal blow.

For out of Abraham would come

One that would rescue man,

That was a four-stroke move by God

Delivered by His very hand.

The devil, limited in his sight

Did not understand this play,

And so he continued as before

Thinking all was going his way.

But God was always in control

From eternity He had planned,

The move He would eventually make

To deliver sinful man.

The four-stroke move He made

Removed much of Satan’s sting,

David became the prospect

And now Satan saw God’s king.

King Saul had played the fool,

Satan snatched him from the board,

But King David would be a type

Of our coming King and Lord.

God made His greatest move

With the devil’s men in disarray,

The Christ child born in Bethlehem

On that first Christmas day.

The devil became desperate

And tried his evil worst,

To kill that tiny baby boy

Before he rid us of the curse.

But God was ahead of Satan’s play

And protected Jesus His Son,

Even though Satan thought he’d won

When Jesus died in the crucifixion.

Satan misunderstood the cry he made

When Jesus cried, “It’s finished!”

For Satan that cry had really meant,

“You have lost!  You are diminished!”

In three days time the King of kings

Had risen from the grave,

Satan tried to keep him down

But Jesus vanquished that knave.

This game is now all but complete

With the Holy Spirit in control,

Why not open your heart to him?

It’s your move: hell or heaven’s roll.

Stewart Russell © 2014