No cart before the horse
Let us get it right,
The chicken before the egg
Was God’s delight.
He created the chicken
Then all the eggs followed,
In my limited understanding
This is easy to swallow.
No cart before the horse
Let’s also get this right,
Being what God wants of us
Is not by our might.
It is critically pertinent
That we understand this,
Not to fathom this injunction
Is to take undue risks.
The born-again believer
Does because he be,
Having the indwelling Christ
Is his reality.
A born-again believer is
And because he is he does,
It’s not the other way around
As some misjudge.
Plum trees bear plums
For only one reason,
It’s because they are plum trees
Whatever the season.
Known by their fruit
Just like any other fruit tree
But not based on what they bear
But what they be.
Source before produce
The tree before the fruit,
Jesus Christ is the spiritual vine-
All in Christ are shoots.
Lord, Lord, some will plea
Their many good works
But lacking the "being in Christ"
Will bring eternal hurt.
We do not do to be
But we be to do what we do,
It is possessor or professor!
Which one are you?
I sought to present this
In a discussion recently,
Doing looks better than being
But it is far better to be.
Some set store by doing
And by their religiosity,
One biblical example of such
Was the Pharisee.
We cannot do a Christian
We can only be one
Hence, Jesus told Nicodemus
He must be reborn.
None of us is worthy,
For sure, not by what we do
But our worth is in Jesus Christ,
That’s who!
Stewart Russell © January 14, 2024
