"I came with nothing
Fell for something
And leave with everything"
What grabs your mind as you read the above?
I will tell you what grabs mine.
I see a beginning and a journey that follows
And it’s not just a mere passing of time.
I came with nothing, that’s how we all came
We came naked in to this world.
Defenseless, vulnerable and dependent
But to our mothers an adorable pearl.
Through many stages we have come
According to the Shakespearian model,
Blundering, stumbling and sometimes falling
With many a joy but so too the trouble.
“Man that is born of a woman,” so said Job,
“Is of a few days and full of trouble.”
No wonder the heights to which we climb
Are like the proverbial bubble.
We fall for many a trick and ruse
Self-fulfillment the order of the day,
We search and search for that pearl in the clam
Near it appears yet still at bay.
Such was my experience as I journeyed along
Falling for much that didn’t matter,
Bemused, mystified and gullible as ever
Led astray by rhetoric and empty chatter.
At the end of my tether I fell for something
That has meant the world to me,
The love of Christ now fills my heart
Like a bird on the wing I now am free.
Having arrived I am destined to leave,
This life will not last forever,
But when I leave I will have everything
For I have found the greatest treasure.
I now have Christ, my Saviour and Lord
He’s the treasure I can never lose,
While with nothing I came, I fell for something
And hence I leave with everything.
Stewart Russell © February 2020
