BAPTISM

Salvation isn't complicated--
The simple path is this:
Worship God, and obey his word--
And resist the tempter's tricks.

There are not multiple paths to eternal life--
Beware such foibles of intellect,
For the Enemy lusts for innocent blood--
And he spins a sticky web.

Consider the love of the Father
Who beheld from the holy throne;

As his precious Son bore our penalty--
That Satan's snare be undone.

It was the Father's mercy that compelled the cross--
The fallen world uplifted thus;
Thus we are compelled to love as well:
Heaven's heart, in earthen cups.

In this valley of decision, then
We honor truth or truth defy;
What fills the heart is that which one serves--
Choose the Gospel-- or choose a lie.

Jesus Christ pitied the sinner's every brokenness--
He regarded our helpless plight--
And when we are buried in  his blood
All stains are rendered white.

Depths of compassion spring to fountains of life--
Truth and mercy: God's manifest will--
And Jesus returning, open arms for his own--
Our Father's glory overspills.



--Abby Elizabeth Charland

But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

    --The words of Jesus Christ, from the Gospel According to John
       John 4:14