No Plan B

 

 

 

God doesn’t have a Plan B

After all, He is not a man,

Though Satan tries his worst

He cannot thwart God’s plan.

 

Breaking News!

Mrs. Adam ate the fruit!

What a huge surprise for God!

He had to give them the boot.

 

Plan B is utter nonsense

Which God are you talking ‘bout?

Certainly not the Almighty

For in Him is no doubt.

 

God was not testing Eve

To see whether she would pass,

God knew both she and Adam

Would fail the devil’s class.

The serpent did the testing

And Eve fell for Satan’s trick

But God knew this would happen

And already had the fix.

 

Actually, it was not a fix,

I just used ‘fix’ to rhyme,

God was not in the repair business

Then or at any time.

 

It was not a ‘fix-it’ Plan B

But redemption’s plan unfolding,

It wasn’t man waiting to see

But God who is all knowing.

 

Ours is usually post vision

That’s the best that we can do,

God sits in eternity

And has a flawless view.

 

He knows all beforehand:

Not an event on time’s line can He miss,

It’s all spread out before Him

Like an everyday shopping list.

 

Plan B infers uncertainty

Or an alternate just in case:

If Plan A doesn’t go as planned

Then put Plan B in its place.

 

 

There’s no Plan B for the Jew

As some seem to suggest,

As though Plan A did not work out

Since Adam made a mess.

 

This was God’s expectation

Crazy as that may sound

But crazier still was the devil

If he thought he’d won that round.

 

For every round he has lost:

After all, Satan is a loser!

To have had all he had and lost it,

He had to be a poor chooser.

 

Like Satan, we have a choice,

Nothing is forced upon us,

Satan can’t make us do anything

Even when we feel we must.

 

 

 

 

God’s one and only plan

Has been always to redeem man,

Even before He created time

This was his unfailing plan.

 

One plan for Jew and Gentile:

Believe in Jesus Christ!

One in the Father, Son and Spirit

And no other plan can suffice.

 

Stewart Russell © August 14, 2021

 

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