SPIRITUAL WARFARE
How are you, today?
Is your heart finding comfort in the Word?
Isn't it strange, how distractions and fatigue interrupt, seemingly for a second or two, but then--
One second,
and then another,
this or that "little thing", we think,
Oh, I must attend to this distraction, this obligation
First,
Lest I be thwarted from reading the Holy Word, from the golden light of prayer
And thus there is the thwarting,
the impasse,
the hindrance
One second after another, strangling eternity
Matthew 11:12 (KJV)
12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
In Christ I wrest each moment from my flesh,
It screams and screams
Not now.. in just a minute...
Do this... do that...
Attend to this itch,
this ache,
this hunger,
this memory
All are earthly delusion:
FLESH
To be crucified in this miniscule, moment,
BY THAT ETERNAL GLORIOUS FORCE:
(I stammer)
"LORD JESUS, HELP ME!"
2 Corinthians 6:2 (KJV)
2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
And then the LORD comes, ever so gently,
Lifting me out of the dung heap, my useless writhing
my silly ideas
my myopic view
On eagles wings
soaring
into his perfect Light
--Abby Elizabeth Charland