This is TIME
Think of the organization of all there is.
From atoms to galaxies it's all put together
In such complexity one can't dismiss
The intelligence controlling more than the weather!
What holds it together? It is God,
Though from atoms to galaxies it's all in motion.
What keeps it moving? It is God.
Time measures the motion of the commotion!
As tick follows tick on the face of your clock.
We see time passing as it moves,
On the consistently organized changing clock.
Time is our measurement of motion, one of our tools.
Units of time told by earth and sun.
Seconds and minutes divide days and years.
A turn of the earth and revolution of the sun
Is the motion that is our time here.
All moving through changes per revolution.
Through the same time direction -- that's purpose,
Organized change through time in profusion.
Much motion we don't see beneath the surface.
If only SOME things seem to have purpose,
Notice ALL change is in only one direction.
We can't unscramble an egg, but that is not our purpose.
What has purpose that we don't see is just beyond our detection.
The ultimate purpose of all there is, its moving purpose through time…
What's it all for, -- all of what we see and hear?
God began the motion through space we call time,
For Him and and for us to hold each other dear.
Ellis
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The Timing of Jesus
The Word of God was made flesh.
God came as human in order to mesh
With us so as to be so kind
As to save and guide lost mankind.
God as Jesus lived among us
When in history the time was
Most right for us needful,
The right time to reach the most people.
The impact of Jesus for 2,000 years
We see now just how Jesus rears
Those who know Him in just how to go
Within God's plan across all lands just so.
Jesus is God's Word to us.
Amid earth's sin we trust in Him
Who saves us from this enterprise
Of man made lies with Satan's rise.
God's Word has been most widely known
Throughout time it now is shown.
The printing press and now TV
Have brought it to you and me.
It has been known a longer time
Since God didn't wait for the climb
Of communications technology that has come
Long after the time He sent His Son.
God's Word, -- the Bible being brought
For God's lessons to be taught
Begins when all was wrought,
And ever since never came to naught.
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Sin, Salvation, and Sanctification
SALVATION begins with our second birth
When the Spirit of God comes in.
The guidance of God's Spirit in life is worth
More than the whole physical world of sin.
SIN is everything that deviates from God's plan
For His Creation that's outside of His will.
When Adam and Eve in Eden sinned and ran,
God had a way for their salvation still.
SANCTIFICATION is the building of character
In the overcoming of temptation,
God's Spirit breaking through our PHYSICAL barrier
For the end of SPIRITUAL Heaven graduation.
Nothing can be perfect in this physical world
For the very reason that everything changes.
The exception was when God as Man was unfurled,
This was Jesus; -- human life He rearranges!
God keeps sin completely separated from Himself.
He's outside of our physical time and space.
Time and space are just two parts off His shelf
For this Creation filled with sin, now our place.
Since sin has corrupted God's Creation,
The temptations of life faced each day
Are things which God's plan never does mention,
Always choices for changes the wrong way.
Jesus, Himself, did not change in any way
That went outside of His Father God's will.
His Father's will He did, nothing forbid did He say.
SIN is everything that lies outside of God's will.
Jesus, being human, had the ability to sin.
He was tempted in all the ways just as we.
But being also God, He had the strength to win
Over sin at every temptation He did see.
Unsaved people are separated from God.
SALVATION is a relationship with Him.
On earth in bodies made from physical sod,
Those Heaven bound have God's Spirit within them!
Time is the limit, as opposed to eternity,
God put in Creation to separate out sin.
Time is also the road there to be
Our means to overcome sin.
When those reconciled to God are freed
Of the confines of space and time,
At death or the Rapture, whichever it will be,
We will be in Spiritual dimensions sublime!
Ellis
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The Christian Perspective on TIME
Written October 24th, 2005
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Excellent!!!
TIME MEASURES ALL MOTION OF THE COMMOTIONS what a presentation of a thought!!! superb. I liked this poem very much. unscramble the eggs? yes, everything goes in one direction, vov!!!
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thanks for sendiong me here ellis ..these are very good..my own Christian faith has taken a turn recently and these were a great reminder for me..if u r interested all the earliest poems on my page are Christian too i would be interested to see whatcha think
God bless
colin -
I really enjoyed reading this....this is very thoughtfully written...I have often reflected on such themes, and I love to see this in the writing of another...
Many questions are raised...and many clever points are made..
Your writing is light and easy to read, though at the same time, it addresses such weighty subjects...
I enjoy your work very much...it is intellectually stimulating...something to think about..
Well done here! I have a feeling that one could have very interesting conversations with you
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exellent job on the time theory..gets one to thinking..great job..religion I say too each his own,so I will not comment on that..keep penning freedom of speach too all!!
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While I liked the view the poems gave and you had many good points, I felt you lost something in your attempt to rhyme. It just seemed very forced in places and that distracted me from what you were trying to say. The first poem reminded me of a story I heard about someone (wish I could remember who) who made a miniature replica of our solar system. When he was asked “who made that” he replied “no one.” When the questioner stated that it was so perfectly made with every planet and every moon exactly the right size and place, so someone must have made it. The artist’s reply to this statement was that it was but a poor copy of the original. How (he continued) is that you can not believe that no one made this, but you find it so easy to believe that no one made the original? Thank you for reminding me of that story and for giving me a glimpse of hope. Patti
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I must give you credit for writing a well thought out piece here , however I reserve the right to disagree with a few things in it. I do not considered myself "damned" just because I have not come to what you call" Salvation" ( meaning I do not belong to any religion). However i should hope that if there is a God and if the final judgement comes , he will look at the life that I have led , and he will see that even though I practiced my "good and kind" in private without the blessing of any church...I am as worthy as the ones that proclaim me a sinner simply because I took the "road less travelled" the one that does not leed me into a church or a prayer assembly. I am a believer in :each his/her own and would never condemn the openly religious ones , however I do expect the same kindness in return
. I am not debating your write here , simply stating my side of it
Reenie
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three pieces linked together by time, the first one, rather more genral that the second two which were purely god written, to comment on those, god created everythng but didn't create sin, who created sin? the devil? who created the devil? God? also god is all forgiving so those sinning can be redeemed, why have sanctification if you can enjoy the sins and then be redeemed when you grow older and wiser, very thought provoking pieces which give questions but no amswers unless you believe, or grow to believe in God, all Gods I assume or is the christian god different. Ver well written pieces well done
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Thanks, but no thanks. I'm an agnostic and cannot add or subtract anythin from this collection. Nice try.
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These are 3 fantastic poems! I think my favourite has to be the third one, explaining each Christian term. This is truly an outreach poem, Ellis. Is there any way you could put it in other categories on this site, too? I think that it is really important to have more people understand the Christian lingo, believers and non-believers alike.
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