I RAISE MINE EBENEZER*
What monument will you bring
Home to Christ the King…
Be it gold
Or words untold,
Or a salvation song to sing?
–
Will He take the trouble
To accept wood or stubble…**
That will expire
In fire,
Leaving you burnt-up rubble?
–
Heavenly gold is found
In souls all around…
Believers must
Help them to trust
In Son of God’s safer ground.
–
The Apostle Paul’s testament***
Were the ones to whom he was sent…
By Spirit’s call
Preaching Christ, Lord of all,
Discipling as he went.
–
Except for our mortal chains, we
Cannot aim for higher than he…
Who poured his life
Out in spiritual strife,
Saving souls for eternity!
–Jonathan Caswell
* Ebenezer…a monument of remembrance (see 1 Samuel 7:12 )
** wood…stubble: 1st Corinthians 3:12
***AUTHOR’S NOTE: Maybe the Poet got his meanings fouled up…this poem seems more in line with 1st Corinthians, than 1st Samuel! But Paul did call, in 2nd Corinthians 3:1-3, the churches he discipled for Christ his own references in regard to his own work for Christ’s Gospel. —J.E.C.
By the Mighty Mumford 