God Sits on High

 

 

God sits on high

And He looks down low,

Some words from a song

That I know.

 

And He walks with me

Via His Holy Spirit

And also His Son

So, He just doesn't sit.

 

My constant companion

All along life’s way

And they never leave me

Even when I stray.

 

I used the word they

But don’t be transfixed,

God is the Father, Son

And Holy Spirit.

 

Omnipresent in the Spirit

Revealed by the Son

And he bids the penitent

Unto Him to come.

 

Who, in no wise

Would He ever cast out

And from my experience,

I haven’t a doubt.

 

“God sits on high

And he looks down low”

Can be more than a song

When to Him we go.

 

He is a real experience

Not an imaginary illusion

For, very unlike the world,

He is not a magician.

 

His miracle is for time

And eternity too,

Not for just a split second

Like magicians do.

 

A momentary thrill!

The offer of this world

But God’s gift is eternal

Like He says in His Word.

 

Served up on a cross

Two millennia ago,

His only begotten Son

Whom I now know.

 

Crucified and buried:

A testament that Jesus died,

No trick or scheme

Like magicians hide.

 

He rose from the dead

And he ascended on high

And he is coming again

Just like he prophesied.

 

He has prepared a place

Where? I don’t exactly know

But wherever he is,

There I will go.

 

To be with him forever

Never to leave,

This is the assurance he gives

To all who believe.

 

Now God sits on high

And God looks down low

And the Holy Spirit leads me

In the way I should go.

 

Stewart Russell © February 15, 2022

 

Why Not Today?

 

Have you considered this

That today could be your last?

Where will you spend eternity

When this life is passed?

 

Will it be with the Saviour

Who died to make you whole

Or will it be with the devil

Who wants to damn your soul?

 

What is there to hold you back

From making the decision now

To give your life to Jesus

And in penitence to him bow?

 

Now is the acceptable time,

Of the future there is no guarantee

And even if there is tomorrow

You might not be around to see.

 

Permit me to be a little morbid

And press the point right home,

Many have an appointment with death

Today may be your own.

 

Then again it might not be

But you and I do not know,

It is better to be safe than sorry

I feel the urge to tell you so.

 

 

 

Today if you will hear His voice

Harden not your heart,

Give Christ access to your soul

Before from this life you part.

 

The initiation is very simple

But certainly not the life,

Spiritual backbone is essential

For the devil will unleash his strife.

 

It is a deceptive fallacy

That Christianity is for sissies,

My brother and sister I assure you

It’s beyond your abilities.

 

But in God all things are possible

Even a successful Christian life,

Once you give to him your hand

He’ll take you through the strife.

 

The fact of the matter is

In this life there will be trouble,

It doesn’t matter whose you are

It comes to all earth’s people.

 

The plus on the believer’s side

Is that the Holy Spirit dwells within,

He will nurture that believer

And guide him through thick or thin.

 

 

 

You can obtain this assurance

If you do not have it yet,

Just confess your sins to Jesus

The sin price he has already met.

 

Confess he’s the only Saviour

And thus, he’s the only way,

His arms are open to welcome you

Just accept him today.

 

If there were only one sinner

Jesus would still have come

To bring God’s wonderful salvation

To that one undeserving son.

 

There’s joy up in heaven

Over one sinner that repents,

Today you could be that sinner

Accept the Son that was sent.

 

 Stewart Russell © February 2018