God Is in Control

 

God is in control

Though it mightn’t look so,

The assertion may be puzzling

But by faith we know.

 

I choose to believe this

Come whatever may,

God is in absolute control

Each and every day.

 

That it is getting worse

Is the opinion of many

But never mind how it looks,

God is the Almighty.

 

 

The Omniscient One

The only wise God,

He that sees all and knows all

Here and abroad.

 

Take note of the order

That exists in all of space

And how each heavenly body

Is held in its place.

 

By God’s word

They all were created

And by God’s word alone

They are supported.

 

 

The winds and the waves

Obeyed the Christ

Having no mind of their own

For good or vice.

 

Unlike human kind

That was given a choice,

Man could obey his Creator

Or ignore His voice.

 

Like back in Eden

You would no doubt recall

When Adam and Eve

Both did fall.

 

Deceived by a serpent

The agent of Satan,

Eve felled for his treachery

Followed by Adam.

 

 

God was in control

When all this occurred

And He is in no less control

In the Present world.

 

Men do as they please;

They have lost control

Especially our world leaders.

They’re on a roll.

 

God is not responsible

For our present raw deal,

It is the leaders that we trust

To whom we must appeal.

 

Appeal to their conscience;

At least, what of it is left

Seeing in the wake of their insanity,

There is suffering and death.

 

Israel and Palestine

Russia and the Ukraine,

Guyana and Venezuela

They are all insane!

 

 

Yet God is in control,

It is mankind that is not

And it is not difficult to see

Given all the rot.

 

However, be assured

Man will answer to God

Not only in the life here and now

But in that final call.

 

God's still in control

Dare to believe with me,

A time of reckoning will come

For everybody.

 

Stewart Russell © March 15, 2024

The Life Principle

 

 

What is this thing called life

Which no man can ever create?

Though that doesn’t stop him from trying-

He is more desperate here of late.

 

His robotic feats are amazing,

We hear of artificial intelligence

But his efforts at creating human life

Are meeting Divine resistance.

 

God is the creator of all nature

In the beginning that’s what He did,

What man innovates is artificial

And to create life is from him hid.

 

God is the Creator of life

But this is without man’s zone

Even though he is at the stage

Where he is creating animal clones.

 

There is a moral responsibility

That God has taken on Himself,

Intrinsic to all human beings

There is the matter of moral health.

 

The life principle in man

Is really the breath of the Living God

And at the point of a man’s demise,

That life principle is recalled.

 

From God to man, from man to God

Never from man to man,

This life principle I must repeat

Is a part of the Father’s divine plan.

 

 

While a man can terminate a life

He is unable to give it back,

That is the prerogative of Almighty God

And that is a scientific fact.

 

There is a tendency to believe

That God and science are at odds

And in blinding the eyes of men

The devil has done a good job.

 

God is omni-science

There is no science outside of God,

The devil knows this too

But after all, it’s not his call.

 

God is the source of all life

Both natural and spiritual

And because our life is hidden in Christ,

That life is also eternal.

 

 

So, man cannot give life

It does not matter how hard he tries,

God is the limiter that determines

The altitude to which man flies.

 

For after all, God is the only God

And man will never be,

The creature can never be the Creator

And this, the creature needs to see.

 

The life principle we need to know

Is the principle for our life,

There is no life outside of Creator God

Without Him there is only strife.

Robots cannot attain to salvation

However apparently intelligent!

No amount of artificial intelligence

Can make a robot repentant.

 

God is the one that gives life

Life physical is a loan from God

But His spiritual life is eternal

And this is the possession of the called.

 

The one who grasps this opportunity

Shall never, never die,

This assurance was given by Jesus

And on it we can rely.

 

You would recall the occasion

He’d given back life to Lazarus,

The only resurrection and the life

Is the Creator, the Lord Jesus!

 

Stewart Russell © May 2020

Any Ass Would Do

 

 

Easy there now, my friend,

No need to get upset,

Don’t think I am into expletives,

Don’t you dare bet.

 

I am into the Bible:

A narrative grabs my mind,

An event involving a man’s ass

Speaking at the time.

 

Now that you remember

You may think it special:

A talking jackass, if you please,

Not one that we tether.

 

There was nothing special

About Balaam’s jackass,

Not sure whether male or female

So, we can let that pass.

 

What we do know for sure

Is that it was an ass,

Check out the Bible for yourself:

That’s an easy task.

 

Numbers 22 verses 22-33:

Go to that location

And you will see what happened

On that occasion.

 

Like most jackasses

Balaam’s ass was faithful

But like jackasses he never talked

Because he was not able.

 

Nothing special, I reiterate,

About Balaam’s talking jackass

But like all hardworking asses

It was faithful in the past.

 

 

Well, except for that day

When its way was blocked,

It had noticed an angel in the way

Which Balaam had not.

 

God opened the ass’s mouth

And then opened Balaam’s eyes,

That order may have taken you

By mental surprise.

 

Balaam was mighty slow

Quite unlike his jackass

Which was far more alert than he

Of the blockage in the path.

 

Must have been special,

I note you are still adamant

But if you don’t know the Creator

You are gravely ignorant.

 

Let me therefore reiterate

My unswerving view,

Once in the hand of Almighty God

Any ass would do.

 

 

Such was Balaam’s ass

That yielded to God’s control,

Quite unlike his stupid master

Who was wrong yet bold.

 

Any ass would do

Doesn’t mean me or you,

Only asses like Balaam’s jackass:

Of the braying crew.

 

A talking jackass?

Nothing’s wrong with this,

God is the one who created the ass;

This we shouldn’t miss.

 

Stewart Russell © March 31, 2025

 

 

Origins

 

 

Back to the very beginning

No better place to start,

A leap of faith is still required

To start a believing heart.

 

In the beginning was nothing

Nothing and no one besides,

Absolutely nothing there was-

On this fact we can rely.

 

But out of the clear blue

At a particular time and place

Time’s clock started to tick away

And with this created space.

 

Now, we must understand

That this was billions of years ago

And the growth from then till now

Was very painstakingly slow.

 

As a matter of fact,

It would be absolutely right to say

It was quite a long while

Before there was night or day.

 

 

The first sound ever heard

Was a colossal Big Bang,

I tell you, to get things going,

This must have been quite a clang.

 

Heard by whom, I would ask

Since no one was around,

But I dare not ask this question

Since I am not a clown.

 

It was the first light too,

Before this, it had to be all dark

Thus, it was this phenomenon

That gave the universe its start.

 

Out of this came life:

A primordial soup you may say

So, you now see why billions of years

Could take us up to today.

 

Time was the creator

Of everything that came to be

And without such time it is certain,

Nothing would be here to see.

 

All this is substantiated

By atheistic scientists there are,

Evolution is the best explanation

For this world by far.

 

In the beginning was no one

Or even anything to start with

Thus, any cause outside of evolution

Must be a created myth.

 

 

For nothing created time

And nothing fashioned space,

Before nothing was not anything

Before anything took place.

 

If the Universe had a beginning

As all have come to believe,

It undoubtedly happened this way

Or we have been deceived.

 

Of course, there is the other side

Which is not a side at all,

A mythical God is their first cause

Which is a non-sensical call.

 

A no-caused Creator-God,

A God who has always been here,

A God, who unlike the Big Bang

Did not suddenly appear.

 

A God with supreme intelligence

Displaying intelligent design

Spoke and it came to pass-

They must be out of their mind.

 

Can he be more powerful, I ask,

Than absolutely nothing

That created all that came to be-

The reason there is everything?

 

 

 

Who would dare to believe, I posit,

In an eternal first cause

Unless proven scientifically

Like the evolutionary clause?

 

Science has proven evolution

Like the computer proves its originator,

The first computer was created

By an intelligent innovator.

 

Isn’t that something, my friend,

Yet nothing created man?

Note the switch in the verse before

As my intentional plan.

 

See the myriad innovations

Fashioned by an intelligent man

And then attribute all of creation

To an evolutionary scam.

 

Then, tell me if you can,

The names of all the mad scientists

For, indeed they must comprise

A rather lengthy list.

 

Stewart Russell © April 27, 2023