Furthering Conformance To the Cross
by Michael Doyle

With an amazing sense of unearned grace
The foot of the Cross can be embraced
An essence of sin drives our theology
As we acknowledge the truth of you and me

Conforming ourselves to the Bible's mirror
It's a self-examination of our life's errors
Starting there to first openly embrace
The steps necessary to reach our better place

We live in the midst of shifting communication
That challenges our necessity for relations
There in the getting from here to the there
Of life that brings us to love past our fears

We have passed through phases of modernization
In our becoming this ill-defined post-modernist nation
This has led to the smallness of inert globalization
To a time of history ripened for pluralization

Serving ourselves to the mindless buffet of gluttony
With hard thought on what's good for you and me
It is a spiritual moment of vapid malnutrition
It too often leads to the abandonment of attrition

That has formed across our nation into a secularization
That embraces the abuses of Godlessness across our nation
Edging God out through our out-of-control egos
We come to a dark momentum recklessly into the unknown

In Ephesians, we are told of a community of Gentiles and Jew
This can be seen as representative of me and you
As we come together and are made spiritually anew
We, believers, need unity in all Godly things that we do

God's Word anchors our Christian sense of society
Through grace and peace, calmness heals anxiety
As we live every single day in grace and are set free
We lived blessed lives through our Father's spirituality

We are to strive to live holy without blemished blame
Doing these things for good and in our Father's name
Holy hours lived by each of us having the capacity for good
If we'd exceed our brokenness and rise up, understood

As we walk our separate path in God's love and light
Finding our way through the darkness of Satan's night
Forgiven of our trespasses through His good will
It becomes a matter of fact, not a matter of how we feel

We need to lavish grace toward all in all we do 
Across this world lived in daily by me and you
The first and the last are necessary for completion
Of the tasks of God's love set out as the world's foundation

God's salvation is available to al for all eternity
Freely given by grace despite our states of perplexity
As long as we keep our eyes focused on the cross
We have everything to gain and none of the world's loss

This is how we walk in our best hope and reverence
Guided through every season by divine providence
So many people spend life mired in the madness
Of unnecessary arguments that can only bring sadness

The spirit of God is the hope given in revelation
Believe only in the risen Son to reach our destination
Of Heaven given to us all by divine proclamation
This then is the only wise course for our foundation

We surrender ourselves to God's promises to survive
And as we surrender our pretenses, we can thrive
There are lines that cannot and must not be crossed
If our hope for society will not be lost

(c) August 11, 2024   Michael Doyle
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