For Me

 

 

 

The fool has said in his heart

There is no God… “For me!”

“For me” becomes the operative term

I trust you will agree.

 

Whether or not there is a God

Really does not matter,

To the fool this is his personal view

Hence, do not blame any other.

 

“For me” nails it right to the floor

No buts, no ifs, no anything,

“For me” identifies who is the fool

Whatever argument one brings.

 

“For me” says this is my quest

For me says I’m a fool like no other,

For while most fools are ignorant

Folly is my endeavor.

 

 

Folly enters via the mind

But its destination is the heart

And then it becomes nigh impossible

To tear the two apart.

 

Folly is like a cancer

That grows and grows and grows

And the mind that used to think

Now slows and slows and slows.

 

The fool soon begins to believe

What is naturally unreal,

Everyone, but he, becomes the fool

And he grades all with a ‘fail’.

 

There is no God “for me”

Becomes more and more acute

And his heart is heard above all else

As the mind increasingly mutes.

 

“In his heart”, the Bible says,

Hence, the mind has gone to sleep,

The two were designed to work together

Now it’s only the heart that speaks.

 

“For me” the unspoken expression

Louder than the spoken words,

Expressed from a heart of derision

Makes the speaker more absurd.

 

“For me” holds him accountable

The ‘him’ here being the fool

And not any learning institution,

Be it a church or a school.

 

 

 

“For me” is not in the original quote

So, it was obviously an add on,

No doubt by the fool it referred to

Have a good day, my friends,

I am gone!

 

Stewart Russell © February 9, 2022

 

 

Like A Compressed Spring

 

 

 

“Come now let us reason together

Says the Lord”

Is located at Isaiah 1 verse 18

In the Holy Word.

 

An invitation to the children of Israel

That had gone astray

Having turned away from God

Thus, rejecting His way.

 

Fast forward to the New Testament

To Romans 1 verse 18

And the next thirteen verses

Paint a familiar scene.

 

Again, it’s the children of Israel

Going their own way

And their blatant worship of idols

Was again holding sway.

 

Professing themselves to be wise

They became as fools

Having forsaken the godliness

In which their fathers were schooled.

 

Exchanging the truth of God

For a colossal lie:

The creation they worshipped

And the Creator they defied.

 

 

Does it sound reasonable to you?

To me it does not,

But this behavior becometh a fool

That makes sense of rot.

 

Because that, when they knew God

They glorified Him not as God,

Their hearts became darken

And they fell victim to King Fraud.

 

King Fraud, the god of this world

Had blinded their eyes

Because they believed not the truth

But rather believed a lie.

 

You might now be questioning

The relevance of this title

So, I will hasten to make the point

That to me is very vital.

 

 

Like a compressed spring

Many suppress the notion of God,

Such a notion is no longer scholarly

And has become like bitter gall.

 

Just like Israel of the Bible

They press down upon the spring

Cognizant that if they should release it

The truth to them it’ll bring.

 

That which may be known of God

Is made manifest in them

And the notion of accountability

For them is the problem.

 

No God means no accountability

The spring must remain compressed,

It’s not easy to do, they know,

But for their lifestyle it is the best.

 

Atheists and Agnostics

I dare say, and the Humanists too:

They all possess the evidence

That leads to a biblical view.

 

 

But they tightly clamp the spring

To shut out the notion of God

Which from within them still arises

Every time they hear God call.

 

So, they are without excuse

Though they try to shut God out

For in the depths of their consciousness

He exists without doubt.

 

That which one vehemently resists

Is testament that it exists

And the fact that to him it does

Is why he vigorously persists.

  

Hence, like a compressed spring,

It keeps reminding him

The moment that he releases it

He’ll have to face his sin.

 

Accountability is the spring

That reminds all of a Holy God

But man compresses that very spring

And rejects the Master’s call.

 

So, Atheists, Agnostics, Humanist too,

Are all living out a lie,

They too believe there is a God

But outwardly they deny.

 

The God they stoutly resist

Is their testament He exists,

And the fact that to them He does

Is why they futilely persist.

 

Stewart Russell © November 21, 2021