I typically have not shared any poems that I have written over the years on this blog, but I have shared many on some social media posts. For whatever reason I decided to share it on this blog.
This writing came about after reading 1 Corinthians 10…it is written as if it were from one of the people who saw the power of God walking across on dry ground leaving the bondage of Egypt, yet became one of the many who grumbled and complained and went back to his own ways. He knew that he and most of the others were not going into the Promise Land, so the poem is as if it is from him as a warning to future generations…
NEVER ENTER IN
Cold and hungry brought out to a place surely to die. I was in bondage, yet had plenty to eat so my mind wonders why.
Why am I here in this new wilderness? I was a slave but now being free I find no rest. Grumble and complain is all I now seem to do. I thought things would be better since I’d made it through.
The Rock had sustained me and I experienced His grace. Yet, slowly but surely I began to exit the race.
I stopped running in the ways I knew I should. I quit doing the things I knew I could. I had seen the might of God on both sides of me. Walking across dry ground from being in bondage to now being free. I never thought I would end up worse off than before. But, that will happen when you stop living in the ways of the LORD. If you think you can continue to live in sin, you too may find your Promise Land to never enter in.
~TRS 1-25-25
Rays of Hope 