It Doesn’t Make Sense

 

I have finally awakened

I am no longer asleep,

What I’m about to share

Is pretty, pretty deep.

 

Speaking something into being

Doesn’t make sense

And I offer no apology

If anyone takes offense.

Especially those Christians

Who have fallen for such,

If they have any sense

It really can’t be much.

  

Think of anything you want

And speak it into being,

You would wait till forever

And that thing you won’t be seeing.

 

 

 

It doesn’t have to be big

Focus on something small,

It doesn’t matter the size

You can’t get it done at all.

 

I have actually tried it

And you can try it too,

Concentrate with all your might

And you’ll agree to my view.

 

God created the world:

What absolute nonsense!

And any who say they believe it

Are in a state of pretense.

 

Once I actually believed it

But that was a colossal struggle,

Finally I came to realize

That did not solve my puzzle.

 

 

The world always was

It simply had no beginning

And once there is procreation

It will never have an ending.

 

You would also prove this

If you try my experiment,

You’d discover what I discovered

And we’ll have a similar bent.

 

The world for me is God

And it will always be,

Get rid of the old wives fables

And open your eyes and see.

 

Evolution doesn’t make sense

But neither does creation,

I believe in an eternal world

That is my summation.

 

 

The truth is I am sleeping

And I am talking in my sleep,

Don’t believe me for a moment

My sleep must be very deep.

 

What a horrible nightmare!

What deplorable foolishness!

How miserable we all would be

If we all believed in this mess!

 

God’s Word sets the record straight

In the beginning God;

It was He that created everything

Spread that news abroad.

 

It is God that always was

God is the great I AM,

The evidence of being awake

Is when we’re walking in His plan.

 

So strike verses one to twelve

That’s the heart of the fool,

Hold fast to all of the rest

And enroll in God’s Bible school.

 

There you will learn the truth

Of all that concerns you

And after the first basic lessons

You’ll begin to see God too.

 

Stewart Russell © October 2018

 

Before the Beginning

 

 

Before the beginning

There was not nothing

And since God cannot not be

There had to be a being.

 

Without a being

There can be no beginning

And without a beginning

There is nothing.

 

The fact there is something

Speaks to a beginning

And so, before the beginning

There has to be a being.

 

This is not pre-ramble

Or wandering willy-nilly,

This is trying to grasp the idea

Of an eternity.

 

Most scientists will agree

The Universe came to be,

That it had to have a beginning

They can clearly see.

 

It was not its own cause

Such would be an impossibility,

It would have to have a cause

That did not come to be.

 

Everything that came to be

Had to have a beginning

Thus, indicative of the reality

Of an eternal being.

 

One before the beginning

Self-existent and uncaused,

Independent and transcendent

Before the beginning, God…

 

 

God in the beginning

Yet before the beginning

Transcending the beginning

Creating the beginning.

 

First cause without a cause

The Creator of it all,

In and before the beginning

The Creator God.

 

Given all of time

Since the Genesis creation

Evolution dissipates with a big bang

And is its own cremation.

 

Before the beginning,

God!

And in the beginning,

First Cause!

 

Stewart Russell © December 8, 2021

 

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

 

 

Let’s Get It Right

 

Sounds like a discussion

But there may not have been one

“Let us make Man”

Was before creation’s dawn.

Sounds like a conclusion

But that may not have been so

That’s how we would think

That the matter should go.

Sounds like a decision

And certainly a unanimous one

The first two were made

And from them all others were born.

That God is the Creator

Should be obvious to all

And that our parents’ transgression

Brought with it the fall.

“Let us make man”

To whom was God talking?

And concerning Adam and Eve

With whom were they walking?

You may want to argue

That God talked to Himself

But if such were the case

You would question his health.

There must have been somebody

That the “us” include

The Trinity is my position

That is what I conclude.

In the beginning was the Word

According to John chapter 1

In the beginning God

Created the very first dawn.

“Let there be light”

That’s what He said back then

Out of that first utterance

We have the where and the when.

  

So at the beginning of time

We have God and the Word

But there was another,

Yes, there was a third.

Who was that third person?

Okay, I will show him to you,

In order to find the answer

Just read Genesis 1 verse 2.

He was the Spirit of the Lord

Yes, a “he” and not an “it”,

The third person in the Trinity

That’s the Holy Spirit.

A truth we do not understand

But how else can we explain it?

These are three and yet the same

God, the Word and Holy Spirit.

He is the Spirit of truth

Just as Jesus had said,

Right there in John 14: 16 to 17

You'll see once you have read.

The world cannot receive him

Because it knows him not

But he indwells the believer

And cleans every spot.

For he dwells with you now

But he shall be in you then

Jesus had told his disciples

As they listened to him.

Another time he told them

That he must go away,

And to them he promised the Spirit

That came on Pentecost Day.

And since the Spirit has come

He guides us into all truth

Such that born again believers

Are the evidence and the proof.

The Spirit searches all things

Yea, the deep things of God,

None but him can discern them

Don’t be fooled by the Fraud.

Romans chapter 15 verse 30

Tells of his great love,

The love of the Spirit who like Jesus

Also descended from above.

The Spirit can be vexed

As in Isaiah 63 and verse 10

And we should not grieve the Spirit

Knowing we are sealed by him.

The Holy Spirit speaks

And Scripture shows he can hear,

There are many verses in the word

With you I can share.

Acts 13:2 is certainly one

1Timothy 4:1 is surely another,

If you have ears then heed the Spirit

Revelation 2 is a timely reminder

The Spirit is a helper

He helps us in our weakness

He testifies of Jesus

And he fills with his sweetness.

The Spirit of God 

Is the same Spirit of Christ,

Read John chapters 14 and 15

And this will suffice.

The Holy Spirit is a person

Just like God and the Word are,

Through him we were brought nigh

And now we are no longer afar.

He’s more than an active force

As some purport him to be,

He is in fact the third person

Found in the Trinity.

The Spirit is one with God 

He is one with the Son

And it will boggle our mind

But these three are one.

In the beginning he was there

Along with God and the Word,

In the Bible we read

They created the world.

These three are involved

In making a sinner whole

The Father, the Word by the Spirit

Indwells every believer’s soul.

Stewart Russell © February 2018