GOD’S DISCUSSION WITH US

GOD’S DISCUSSION WITH US

(A progression of faith through the Book of Genesis)

 

The prophets of THE LORD*

And disciples of our King**…

Were taught how to receive His Word

And what to be remembering.

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Adam walked with God

In the Garden’s evening cool…

He could have gone on doing that,

But was easily fooled.

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God spoke clear enough

To be heard by Cain…

Who killed his brother for the stuff

That byworded his name.

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Enoch walked with God

Closer than his fathers had…

God took him and he was not,

Let the saints of THE LORD* be glad!

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Abram met God at night

Being told to look at stars…

He then believed that God could act,

Despite Abram’s own scars.

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He saw God visiting,

Toward Sodom two angels went…

Abraham inquired of THE LORD*

How many souls could prevent?

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Then God told Abraham

A sacrifice to prepare…

It was to be his promised son,

For obedience, a ram was there.

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Abraham was old and grey,

Another sacrifice prepared…

By a smoking pot among the halves

His people’s future was aired.

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Farther from the Garden we,

Rather like the saints of old…

Find walking with God harder still

So we should endeavor bold!

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List’ning is harder now

With distractions all around…

But we are called to seek out Him,

Kneeling on earnest ground.

–Jonathan Caswell

*THE LORD = The name of God as expressed in many Old Testament renderings…without going into the Hebrew or a adaptation of the Hebrew.

**Our King = Jesus Christ was described in the Old Testament and proclaimed in the New Testament as our Prophet, Priest and King.  See a Bible Concordance for references to this.