ALWAYS WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE

Dead is dead, yes, but there is a resurrection!

We will be like Him and there is a connection!

All who die in Christ will never see corruption,

But all who die without Him inherit destruction!

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Destruction, yes!  For as sensibilities go

No more peace, no more comfort, no more joy below!

Delusion interrupts every soul that remains!

I will be glad to leave it with all it contains!

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Will not need cars, trains, or ships where I am going, be so glad!

I will be leaving this world, not that I am good or bad,

But I am saved, ‘born again’, I am salvation’s own son!

And I am not alone!  For He died for everyone!

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All who want may come and be with Him forever!

This is no delusion!  I know I will perish never! (*)

Yes, dead is dead but know this, the clock is still running,

So whatever you do just do not keep on shunning!

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Have you ever considered God’s seniority? (**)

His response is triggered by your activity?

You do not have to yell in prayer, He hears your thinking!

Dwell on all those bad thoughts and He knows you are sinking!

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Of course He knows our thoughts before we ever think them!

And He equips us with a conscience to refute them!

Never underestimate His wisdom, love, or power!

Timeless, He is always with you, now and every hour!

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(*)    in the sense of oblivion

(**)  better believe it pilgrim, from eternal to everlasting!

That is what eternal means!

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S. H. Cox 10.21.05

DIVINE DIALOGUE

Keep in touch with Jesus,

See Him on the throne.

God the Father, stands by

While God the Son leaves home.

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God the Son descending

Planet earth, His aim,

To live and die for sinners

Yes, that is why He came.

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“I made those people,” God said

“It is true,” said the Son,

If not for Lucifer, they

Would be safe everyone!

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“I will go.  Assume sins wages.

I will die for their sins!”

Then God the Father trembled

The Heavens shook within!

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Become human?  Bad enough!

But to face Satan, too?

It is true.  Jesus answered,

“This I will do!”

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“Yes, I know,” said the Father,

As He sadly looked away!

Gabriel knew the enemy

And prepared for the fray!

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An unseen shield was spread

Over Mother and Child!

The Holy Child grew safely

From all sin undefiled!

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“Yes, I know you!” Satan smiled.

The wilderness was bleak.

Full forty days he had fasted

And sleepless, He was weak!

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“Make bread of these stones,”

Devil growled, knew he was failing.

Tormented, Jesus cried out,

“Be done with this assailing!”

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Jesus knew it was not over

The temptations would not end!

His last trick, crucifixion!

With this Christ must contend!

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But the end was the beginning!

His resurrection gained

Salvation for believers!

And cleansing from sins stain!

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Hallelujah!  Christ arose!

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Sam Cox 5.7.05

TAKING THE JESUS WAY

We are the most miserable of men

If the dead rise not!

Just to lie there, mingle with earth,

No soul just die and rot!

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No!  “Goodness and mercy have followed me,

All the days of my life!”

The rigors of farm life projected an

Adventurous future of strife!

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Cannot begin to describe the misery of

Some of the tasks I endured!

Could not wait to get away from drudgery,

Freedom from farming secured!

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Like, up in the mow, been trashing time,

To describe sheer misery

Storm of dust!  The struggle to stand,

An impossibility!

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“Let Sam me do it!”  They all agreed!

The dirtiest task for me!

“Sam likes dust!”  Another declared!

Who am I to disagree?

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Those people all dead now, except for Paul,

Who seemed exempted from work.

Seemed like a tragic separation,

As there was nothing to shirk!

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My only hope at times it seemed,

Death and my resurrection!

Hope in Christ and heaven above!

A beautiful connection!

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Live this life!  Non-Christians contend!

This is it!  It is all done!

70 to 80 years at the most!

Not Nirvana, has just begun.

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According to many, life goes on,

Interminably until no end!

Each new life in a lower form,

Until worm or amoeba tend.

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To perish but then possibly

The upward swing begins

To drag one back to eternal oblivion!

To Nirvana!  All those things. (*)

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Though my life on the farm seemed that way,

The ever downward trend,

Think I see it was good for me!

Determined not to bend!

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My only pleasure now extends to

Doing His will each day!

My talents directed now to keep

On going the Jesus Way!

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(*) Hinduism replete with foolishness!

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Sam Cox 12.14.08

THE CROSS IS NO SURPRISE

Mary watched as Jesus stretched His arms up to the sky!

Then so slowly brought them down to His side!

No!  That cross was no surprise!

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She felt again the shock when His hammer hit a nail,

A vision in her mind brought a sudden shock of pain!

It was the cross again!

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A shadow fell just outside the cabin door!

The shadow formed a cross cast upon the floor!

She cried, “Please God!  No more!”

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But she knew somehow the vision would not cease!

As the time of sacrifice drew near, they would increase!

The Father brought her peace!

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Certainly she knew, “This sacrifice is for me!”

“My son must die for everyone to set us free!”

From sin and death!  The cross I see!

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A memory awakes in Mary’s heart, one day!

A resurrection!  Death could not have its own way!

He would arise to live!  To stay!

(The cross is no surprise!)

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From that cross He sees a thief in painful death!

But believing, crying out with his last breath,

“Remember me when…”  He smiles in death!

The cross is NO SURPRISE!

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S. Cox 03.04.09