Tune into the Poem

Tune Into The Poem 

^“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.”   Romans 1:18-20 (ESV) 

There’s this Spanish store tucked away on the corner of 7^th and Peach streets in Vineland, NJ where they make some of the best roasted pork I’ve ever had. The rice and beans that goes with it adds a nice dimension to its flavor and it leaves you wanting a nice portion of flan covered with caramel syrup. I was introduced to this place by Pastor Tony Cuellar (Emmanuel Bible Church, Vineland, NJ) and now that I work in Vineland, Cidra’s Supermarket has become a once a week lunchtime spot for me. Now a good place for lunch is important place for a Pastor and a friend to meet but this isn’t the only cool thing that Pastor Tony has introduced to me. 

Pastor Tony was the most recent speaker during the Families For Christ weekend at America’s Keswick and he introduced to all of us there on how to look at the Creation as God’s “poiēma” or God’s “poem.” Now we get our word poem from poiēma and when you go to look up poiēma in “The Strongest Strong’s” we can find the word creation in its meaning (#4161 just you can see it for yourself). The cool thing that Pastor Tony tells us is that we get to wake up into The Poem everyday…and we really don’t deserve it. Even as believers in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ we don’t deserve it. 

The way God’s Poem started was in absolute perfection. We can go back into the book of Genesis, chapter two, and go day by day and see just how God in His infinite wisdom began to create a world that was to bring Him glory. But something went wrong and The Poem got an unwanted re-write or an inversion, if you will. Because by the moment the words pop off the page  “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”, The Poem became more about us and less about Him. Now, we wake up in the morning, into a poem we don’t deserve to be part of, and we complain on how lousy the weather is or that the trash still hasn’t been taken out. 

Somehow it is as if it has become that we need God to try to understand us and not us trying to understanding the things of God. Now we all know that Satan needed Eve to eat the fruit to complete his agenda of separation from the Heavenly Father but it seems that even though we have said “YES” to Jesus we still need  God to understand that at least we are not like this or that or so and so. That is so far off the mark isn’t it? We can’t get it into our heads that we don’t deserve to be part of The Poem at all. It isn’t what we are not doing it is what we are doing in our hearts. And for those of us who are married that heart can get to be doing a lot of what is no good…can I get an AMEN? 

So with all that being said can we tune back into The Poem? If we look at is found in Zephaniah 3:17 we can rest in this promise, “The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty One who will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you by His love; He will exult over you with loud singing.” We don’t need to do Satan’s job, for he is the accuser of the Brethren,  meaning we need to keep our own boney finger to ourselves and say, “We are the ones that fall short, we are the ones to be held accountable, we are the ones without excuse.” When we can get ourselves to deal with that, then we can tune our receivers back to The Poem Channel, Amen? – Chris Hughes is a graduate of the Colony of Mercy and a frequent contributor to the daily Freedom Fighter blog

Team YOU: Joshua 10-12; Proverbs 22; Luke 1:39-56

Motivations:  “God does not say that none of the unregenerate are refined, or cultured, or able, or sweet-tempered, or generous, or charitable, or even religious. But he does say that none are righteous, none understand God, or seek after Him.”---C.I. Scofield

Practice to Remember: Level 1:Ephesians 4:11-12; Level 2: Ephesians 4:1-6

Powered Up:  Prayer without work is like an empty wagon – lots of noise but no load!