I know it is easy
To go with the flow
But it is easier to swallow,
You must admit that though.
What am I talking ’bout
You’ll soon know,
This is just the preamble
We’ll soon begin to flow.
Look all around you
For a moment or so,
Think of what you see-
How much do we know?
We talk a lot
And pontificate more,
We are very bright
And very self-assured.
What others will never learn
We already know
And we are quick to say
“I already knew so.”
I have been a teacher
For much of my life
And un-teaching students
Causes most strife.
Especially when it was you
That led them that way,
It’s difficult to change them
On any subsequent day.
I look back on my teaching
And often kick myself
At the mistakes I made
And did so with stealth.
For I felt I was great
And there were few like me,
I knew so much
It was like a mystery.
And then I got to learn
That I didn’t know squat,
My knowledge was a dot
On a very small plot.
At first I was overwhelmed
At my stupidity,
That I knew so little
To me that was a mystery.
This was humbling
But where I needed to be
If I would ever overcome
This great difficulty.
I looked away from me
And I looked to God,
In a real sense I recognized
That I was a fraud.
Pretending to be
What I really was not
When all along
I was fixed to a spot.
I am just saying
God remedies such stupidity,
I thank Him today
That He did it for me.
The little I know now
Makes me so aware
That there’s much we can learn
When God we fear.
So my friend believe today
That God really exists
For this is the first step
To get out of your mess.
The mess you created
By refusing to believe
That God is the only source
Through whom truth is received.
Look around you again
I must reiterate,
At least one encounter with God
Is everybody’s fate.
I can’t guarantee another
This day is your day,
I am just saying
Right now He is in your way .
How can I tell?
Because you read the last line,
Believe my brother, my sister,
This is your time
Don’t push Him away
Like you have done before,
Open and let Him in
As He knocks on your door.
You’ll not regret it
I can guarantee you that,
He’ll make it worth you while
I know that’s a fact.
The fear of the Lord
Is the beginning of wisdom
And only in Jesus Christ
One can find salvation.
He is the way
And the truth and the life,
Outside of His providential care
There is nothing but strife.
What a wonder He chose
To give you this chance!
This wonderful opportunity
Your knowledge to enhance.
You don’t know Jesus
But you think you know a lot?
Well I’m just saying
Your perceived knowledge is simply rot.
Stewart Russell © June 2018
