The Word Is Quick

  

 

I wonder sometimes

Whether we realize

That the life within the Word of God

Is not disguised.

 

I sometimes ask me

What does this mean

And I go to Hebrews 4:12 to observe

What can be seen.

 

The written Word

Is about the Living Word

And that this is the Lord Christ,

You have heard.

 

John in the Gospel

Starts out with this:

“In the beginning, was the Word.”

Sharp and crisp!

 

 

 

Explicit from the get-go

No need to interpret,

Take it just as it has been stated,

From eternity set.

 

A statement of fact

About the First Cause:

And that this necessary first cause

Had to be uncaused.

 

John echoed Moses,

It’s not a contradiction!

They both are citing the first cause

For all creation.

 

One singular causation

Definitely not two!

Go directly to John 1 and verse 1

And take in the view.

 

“The Word was God.”

Don’t you see it there?

Upon this fact hangs all that exists

Here and everywhere.

 

“In him was life”

There’s life in the Word!

Let that sink into your very being

Now you have heard.

 

 

 

In the beginning God

And so too, the Word,

Yet so many say this cannot be;

That it’s absurd.

 

The Word is quick:

Meaning that it is alive

And does not need one’s rhetoric

In order to survive.

 

Be careful not to add

Or even to subtract,

The Word needs no amendments:

It is eternal fact.

 

Be sure not to multiply

And definitely not divide

Unless we are using 2 Timothy 2:15

As our guide.

 

Study to shew thyself

Approved unto God,

A workman that needeth not to be ashamed,

Rightly dividing

The Word of Truth. 

 

The only dividing required

Is rightly dividing

And this one and only operation

Is the Spirit’s guiding.

 

 

 

Yes, the Word is quick

So, let us all stick to it

And let us also do like in Hollywood:

“Stick to the script”.

 

Stewart Russell © March 22, 2026

The Word Became Flesh

 

 

As words go

Here is simplicity

But as to the enormity

Here is immeasurable profundity.

 

The Word became flesh:

What does it mean?

I will share the little bit

That I have gleaned.

 

Not much I assure you;

Just a little grasp

For as to a full understanding

That’s an impossible task.

 

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God,

Already as you can see

This is tall.

 

God and the beginning

Are not synonymous

But re all that came into being

There is purpose.

 

 

Without God

There is nothing

But with God

There is everything.

 

In the beginning

Was the Word,

Not another beginning-

Don’t be absurd.

 

Just one beginning

As in Genesis 1:1;

The same being reflected

By the apostle John.

 

The Word was God

So stated John 1:1

Suggesting to the reader

These two were One.

 

As to the words

There is understanding

But as to the profundity

It is baffling.

 

Moses: witness #1

John: witness # 2:

Both holding vantage points

That gave a clear view.

 

Moses

And the Old Covenant;

John

In the New Covenant.

 

In the Old

Christ was concealed,

In the New

Christ was revealed.

 

From the beginning

The Word was with God

But understand this, my friend,

This is not all.

 

Here it is:

The absolute rest!

The Word dwelt among us

In the form of flesh.

 

Herein is purpose

As mentioned before,

As the eternal God in the flesh,

The Word is the Door.

 

I am the door

Says the living Word,

It is situated at John 10 verse 9

In God’s Holy Word.

 

 

The Word became flesh

And dwelt among us

As the incarnate Son of the Father

And his name was Jesus.

 

His name is Jesus

Saviour of the world

Meaning: to every single soul

That believe on his Word.

 

God in Christ Jesus

Reconciling the world,

Revealed in His incarnate Son

Spoken of in His Word.

 

Denied by the Gnostics:

Nothing good in the flesh!

For them, Jesus the Christ

Was not real, more or less.

 

Antichrists they were

Regarding their lack of belief,

The fact that Jesus was in the flesh

Brought them no relief.

 

 

The Word becoming flesh

Was to their detriment

Thus, on account of their belief,

They could not repent.

 

Salvation and thus,

The redemption of man,

Is secured on one’s saving faith

In God’s redemptive plan.

 

He shall be called Emmanuel

Meaning God with us,

That one who came in the flesh

Is our Saviour Jesus.

 

It is a minimal grasp

Re what I have tried

But by faith in what I understand

Jesus I won’t deny.

 

Acts 20:28

 

God purchased the church

With his own blood,

The Son is essentially God and thus,

Only he could.

 

Through his blood

We are saved from sin,

He, therefore, is the only door

By which we enter in.

 

2Corinthians 5:19

 

To wit,

That God was in Christ,

Reconciling the world unto himself,

Not imputing their trespasses unto them;

And hath committed unto us

The word of reconciliation.

 

 

 

John 1:14

 

And the Word was made flesh,

And dwelt among us,

(And we beheld his glory,

The glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)

Full of grace and truth.  

 

Stewart Russell © November 15, 2024

 

A theist and atheist

 

 

A theist and atheist

Were having a conversation,

They argued backwards and forwards

In their fierce opposition.

 

Somewhat as in Parliament,

Argument after argument

Contending who’s wrong or right

With purpose and intent.

 

Now look at the two

And tell me what you see,

There is but one alarming distinction

As how it seems to me.

 

A theist and atheist:

Why, they are almost alike

But in between the ‘a’ and ‘t’

One is showing more light.

 

This should be expected

Since this one points to God,

Theos, as I recall in my little Greek,

To me says it all.

 

Seven distinct letters!

Not one is even repeated

But the idea of the Lighted One

Has the other defeated.

 

In the beginning God,

It’s God who created light,

Outside of Him is utter darkness

How can atheists be right?

 

 

 

It’s a matter of matter

Atheists want us to believe,

No Theos is their assumption

Pseudo-science their reprieve.

 

But as reprieve suggests,

It’s only temporary

For when the light bulb lights up

It all points to the Almighty.

 

Matter explains everything:

So claims the atheist,

No God and no superior mind

But this I must resist.

 

A theist and atheist

On paper might look alike

But one of them is full of darkness

And one is full of light.

 

 

 

Recall the words of Jesus

Who said, “I am the light.”

How can a materialist or atheist

Even be considered right?

 

In the beginning

Matter came from nothing

And after matter was settled

It gave us everything.

 

High fives for matter

For then nothing matters,

To you and me it doesn’t matter

If we too came from matter.

 

From matter we came

Of matter we’ll always be,

No God to reverentially fear

And no accountability.

 

Reminds me of a jingle

We used to say at school,

Of course, in most of us back then

Was a little fool,

 

“No more Latin

And no more French,

No more sitting on St. Giles’ hard bench,

When de teacher ring de bell

Tek up yuh books and run like hell.”

 

This came at the end

Of every school term

And this was the vacation time

For which all of us yearned.

 

“No more Latin

And no more French,

No more sitting on St. Giles’ hard bench,

When de teacher ring de bell

Tek up yuh books and run like hell.”

 

If there is no Theos

And thus, no accountability,

Then let’s live however we please

Without restraint or worry.

 

For today we live

And tomorrow we die

And if I live the way I live today,

Who’s to ask the reason why?

 

 

A theist and atheist

Are infinite poles apart,

The atheist sets store by matter

And matter has no heart.

 

Theists on the other hand

Believe in intelligent design

And so, beyond the material realm

Is an intelligent mind.

 

First cause of every cause

Including that of matter,

A theist makes abundant sense

Atheist is empty chatter.

 

Stewart Russell © May 7, 2024

 

The Beginning of Time

 

 

If everything had a beginning

As most of us will agree,

Then time also had a beginning-

That we should also see.

 

But how did time begin?

It must have been suddenly,

Emerging out of somewhere

Perhaps, eternity.

 

Eternity is a phenomenon

We do not readily understand,

We have no reference point

For the concept it demands.

 

Learning begins at the intuitive:

What we know we know,

And from that body of schema

Other concepts grow.

 

Time, however, is different

We do have a concept of time,

It is calibrated in days and weeks

And measures of this kind.

 

There must have been a time

When time had not begun,

Oops! Right here lies my human slip

But better cannot be done.

 

A conundrum some would say:

A brain-teaser or a riddle,

A difficult problem at the very least

That’s currently unsolvable.

Except of course, there’s one

That knows the answer to all,

A time when time had not begun

Therefore, must lead to God.

 

“In the beginning, God…”

It must inevitably begin with Him,

The only credible account

Of history from its origin.

 

History is a synonym for time:

Time already unfolded

But in the eyes of Almighty God,

Time is differently coded.

 

No past and present and future

As far as God is concerned,

For Him who resides in eternity

There is nothing else to learn.

 

Time is our best reference

For an understanding of eternity

But even this falls erringly short

Given out finite capacity.

 

Evolutionists enunciate an origin

For everything under the sun

But concerning the beginning of time,

They have absolutely none.

 

A projection of billions of years

Is the best that evolutionists can do

But concerning the origin of time

I am yet to hear a view.

Here is one for their consideration:

“In the beginning, God…”

There is no before or after Him,

God is the all in all.

 

It is God that created time

And just enough for His divine plan:

To have a people for Himself

Along with the angelic clan.

 

This time that had a beginning

Will also have an end,

But that, my appreciated reader,

Is for another poem.

 

Stewart Russell © September 8, 2020