Cyberspace and God

 

 

I was looking for cyberspace

But I could not find it,

I looked and looked and looked again

Until I was forced to quit.

 

Have you had this challenge?

Looking for cyberspace?

Were you like me, forced to quit,

Having not found a trace?

 

I know beyond the slightest doubt

That cyberspace is real,

I save all my documents there

And it has never failed.

 

To me that is adequate proof

That cyberspace exists,

If you have successfully found it,

Show me what I've missed.

 

 

 

Consider the level of confidence

We repose in cyberspace

That we consign critical information

To this indescribable place.

 

In yonder post office

It takes many to sort the mail,

Not so in imaginary cyberspace

It’s more like a fairy tale.

 

Yet it is more than imagination

Given its predominant use,

It handles billions of documents

And also suffers abuse.

 

It is a very useful facility

But is also abused by many,

Such is the reality with some minds

That are bent on depravity.

 

I’ve never heard anybody say

That cyberspace is not real,

Even though like the Almighty God,

Its presence is veiled.

 

 

Yet, some say there is no God

And to believe in Him is folly

But they’d rather believe in cyberspace

Which is God’s creativity.

 

Some will boldly declare

“I won’t trust what I cannot see,”

But their morning and evening word

Simply do not agree.

 

They willingly trust cyberspace

But yet they refuse to believe in God-

Both for the same very reason…

Sounds to me like fraud.

 

 

Dropbox, iCloud and Google:

All three were created by man

But the Creator of all that there is

Was handled by cruel hands.

 

Nailed to a cross at Calvary,

Hewn from a tree God created,

The only Son of God there suspended

That man’s sins could be expiated.

 

Yet, we reject the Creator

As well as His only Son He sent

While putting faith in cyberspace

And refusing to repent.

 

Away with that silly excuse

For not believing in God,

If for the same reason you trust cyberspace

Then you must be a fraud.

 

A fraud you would have to be

And a fraud you must be called

If you can believe in cyberspace

But can’t believe in God.

 

Stewart Russell © September 7, 2023

 

Created in God’s Image

 

 

Created in God’s Image

And likened to Him

Now flawed by the fall

Because of Adam’s sin.

 

Fashioned from the earth

God breathed into him life

Felled by Satan’s deception

The beginning of all strife.

 

Hopeless and helpless

Man wandered the earth

But God had a plan

To give him a new birth.

 

In Genesis three fifteen

God first signaled this plan

To usher in a new beginning

And to redeem fallen man.

 

His Son would come to earth

To be be born of a virgin

Implanted by the Holy Spirit

And totally without sin.

 

 

He lived among the people

Teaching the way of the Lord

His was the perfect way

He was the Living Word.

 

The people were overawed

By his many miracles

And even teachers of the law

Were puzzled by his parables.

 

They questioned him often

At times they even ridiculed

But Jesus would not be tempted

To be the devil’s tool.

 

Finally they crucified him

Achieving the Father’s plan

That one would pay the price

For the sins of fallen man.

 

He who was without sin

Died the death of sinful man

To take away sin’s scourge

And fulfil God’s redemptive plan.

 

His life was the example

Of how everyone should live

And he is now the object

The focus we should give.

 

Thus created in God’s image

Man the crowning creation

But saved to conform to Jesus

The purpose of our salvation.

 

 

For whom God foreknew

Them He also predestinate

To conform to the image of His Son

And as His sons we now relate.

 

Be not conformed to this world

But be renewed in the mind

So that as the world looks on

Jesus’ image they would easily find.

 

Stewart Russell © 2016