Getting It Right With God
by Michael Doyle

A lot can be said and with enormous passion
For Jewish and Gentile people with compassion.
In the obedience of faith, we live God's story,
All for the sake of our Father's glory.

We are new creatures in this family,
Wearing the garments of God faithfully
We are to give away all this grace.
The goodness of all this we embrace.

Paul spoke to his brethren of the need for restoration.
Doing his best to remind all of the Jewish nation,
But like a lullaby effect without any question,
We know what we want to know without any hesitation. 

Asking questions beyond the sins of self-deception,
We betray ourselves with comfortable misconceptions.
All of us walk between our faith and unintended tension
Across the discomfort, as we learn to redirect attention.

Self-betraying is the ownership of what we do and need.
We ignore the unexpected demands of being freed.
Like a driver no longer steering but moving on ahead,
Adjustments are missed as we hide inside our heads.

We get lost in walking rituals of blind-sighted worship
When what we need is to find our way to right relationship.
God so loved the world that He gave us the ability,
And now we must grow into our best capability

The eyes of our hearts need to see the holy light
In the the world's darkness as we fight the good fight.
Disturbance comes to call us ever higher
As we reach to comfort others, not our own desires.

Options considered are the way we learn to grow.
The mercy of God is to learn what we might know.
Bookended by discipleship and evangelism,
We are on the mission of God's profound optimism.

There is a world that we find all around.
It needs us to reach out as God's love abounds
Developing a heart that feels for the lost
No longer insular but willing to sacrifice the cost.

The cost of loving others as is the Lord's will.
To live the life that God freely reveals,
We live our latter years as if at our start
Sharing with others straight from our hearts.

The world outside us waits for us to share
Jesus, as our savior, who truly cares.
Out of our abundance, we are to freely give
The pathway needed for others to truly live.

(c) April 27, 2025   Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved