Rejecting Or Accepting?
Do you clearly hear the voice of God when He is speaking?
Do you have an open mind, but truth are always seeking?
And do you humbly give time to others who oppose you,
Letting what you’re upholding be confirmed or proved untrue?
When confronted with a view by other people spoken,
Is your mind impressed by it, are things within awoken?
Do you ask God to confirm that view, if it's one you should believe,
Always willing to accept what your Saviour says receive?
Or are you found resisting it, if it isn’t your desire
(At that point) to take the heat of our Lord’s refining fire?
Will you later change your mind, or might that sadly come too late?
What might be the price you'd pay, were you to procrastinate?
And once our Lord and Saviour, via another has appealed,
With those words you need to hear, (that His will be revealed),
Do your actions show (in time) the true state of your heart,
As still further from what’s right, you tragically depart?
Or does it have you changing to more fully fit God’s Word,
Your actions now the fruit of what the Lord desired heard?
And are you then more watchful, and no longer just content
To remain where once you were, instead of being where God meant?
Perhaps almost persuaded, but something has held you back;
Could that be the old devil, or commitment that you lack?
Could it be a lack of study, or some bias that you hold,
Others who have changed your mind, with the wrong that they have told?
Could it be the pull of peers, or is background at the heart?
Could it be you're avoiding what might pull your view apart?
Have you held your view so long that you feel it must be true,
Or put your trust in numbers when that’s not the thing to do?
Do you confuse the message with the one God might have sent,
Thinking that what you know of them, probably means it's bent?
Given broken earthly vessels are the best that God can use,
Why should you imagine that He has better ones to choose?
God has a way of choosing those that often we would not;
If left up to our judgment, He might well reject the lot.
What if God chose to use you, but you too, weren’t well received;
Would you think His choice wrong too, because you also weren’t believed?
If what we hold is truly right, we don’t have a need to fear,
But sadly, when a challenge comes, many uptight soon appear.
Do you react the same with Him, when our Lord approaches you?
Well, how you treat those He sends, is a very important clue.
By Lance Landall
