Poetry

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I tasted the dregs of sin
Until a bitter cup it became
Drowning in sorrows, strife and grief
Filled with lowly shame

Darkness ever deepened
As black as black could be
A hopeless destination
Upon a despairing sea

A world without a method
To aright the soul of man
In futile desperation
Trying every means it can

As walls enclosed around me
And fenced me in with sin
God’s Spirit came to my rescue
There He drew me in

He waited on the sidelines
Willing to be my stay
I but had to seek Him
But didn’t know the way

In a church that preached the gospel
Cared for souls of men
I was awakened to my peril
“Ye must be born again!”

I never read the Bible
So hadn’t heard before
That Jesus was the answer,
That Jesus was the door

So in unbelief and doubting
I began to read God’s Word
I prayed to Him, if this was real
I had to be assured

Sure enough I read it
It began to change my life
I became a different person
No longer chained by strife

It slowly turned my thinking
To think the thoughts of God
In thinking on His written Word
A new path I began to trod

O Glory Hallelujah!
The Lamb of God For me
Written in Heaven’s Book of Life
Jesus made me free

I sing O Hallelujah!
What wonder to behold?
Salvation that’s so full and free
The greatest story told

I stand amazed and sing it
Sing it, o’er again
Turn ye, turn ye why will ye die?
Jesus says come in!

With tears of joy I tell it
With tears of sadness as well
If men do not repent and believe
They’re surely doomed to hell

Time is of the essence
Man appointed once to die
His eternal destination
Should be his heart felt cry

Don’t let the world allure you
Through pleasure or through lust
Be born again is a commandment
Jesus says, “Ye must!”

Gary J. Smith © Copyright Feb. 27, 2000 @ 8:30 p.m.
[email protected]

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