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Last week I asked for prayers that God would answer a question: Should I read poems I have written and posted on Facebook about the times we are living in. My concern was the political content of some of the poems. And again, I am stating that it is not the politics of today I want to discuss, rather it is the fight of good and evil that overrides all things.

About 3 hours after finishing recording last week’s podcast I went to the computer, got on line and checked our bank statement. Then a thought came to me while looking at the 3 books on the desk next to a pile of podcast files. I wondered to myself, are the poems in here and is this what God has led me to. I picked up Living in God’s Rhyme and was led to 3 poems.

I love the answers to prayers.

The first poem is found on page 114.

IS THIS THE HUMAN CONDITION

(This is not a question)

Where is God when we need him?

Why has this happened again,

Over and over again?

We were told you were a good God,

A loving God who cares for his people.

Where are you in our times of need!

Before our time of need

We should take time to read

Of the history of his chosen ones,

His beloved daughters and sons.

In their times of greed

They did not see the need

To honor his glory and heed

His word, words that feed.

It is there for us today.

Did we not know so we cannot say?

Did we not know as we walked away

That you despised our way?

Did we not hear that Jesus came

Not just for the Jew, but also the Gentile?

He came so that with God we could reconcile

So as Jew and Gentile we are all the same.

If we love God and his Son,

No matter what we have done,

His love for us never is never ending.

Our lives forever he will be mending,

If we love him we must follow

With words and prayers not hollow,

We must be true to him who loves us,

Loves us so much he sacrificed Jesus.

There is a reason us rhymes with Jesus.

But we never learned the lesson,

Maybe because we never read

Of God’s anger over the adultery

Of his chosen ones with idols

And false gods, the gods of others

That do no good, but only harm.

Gods of wood and gold, some were so bold

To worship nothing instead of everything,

All that their God had for them.

So where is God today as children are slaughtered,

As lives are abandoned and hope forgotten?

He is everywhere, where are we?

Reflection on Is This The Human Condition

I think that I mentioned before that I had no idea what direction the book I am writing here would lead me. Although I talk of reading God’s word and receiving the words of the poems from God, I am probably the last person, if I were on the outside looking in, that I would think could have that relationship. It has grown since I started writing this book. But the poems continue to surprise and amaze me. I was reading Hosea before writing and I just stopped and wondered at the times God’s chosen people walked away from Him and then when trouble came, well you know what we all do at those times. Today we are in the same place. I had no idea I would what I would write other than the title

Discussion:

The next poem is found on page 159

MEANINGLESS WORDS

First came the...