“Images From Nature” [Reflections On Sun Tsu's Art Of War (Chapter7 #9) (James 1:6;Matt.20:22; Ps.1:3; Matt.3:10; 12:33; Is.30:27; Matt.3:11; Heb.12:29; Matt:17:20; I Cor.13:2)
Wind, and forest, fire, and stone
Of a mountain – such is home;
When it’s “tactics” we fulfill
Images from nature will –Give us pictured-way to act;
Thought contained in imaged fact,
Is more potent than just words –
Pictures shape what has been heard.Wind speaks of the rapidity;
Movement traceless – fleetingly;
Present, then it’s gone – who knows
Whence it came; or where it goes?Forests stand majestically;
Movement slow and orderly;
Standing in its compact form;
Steady is the forest’s norm.Fire, ferocious, searing heat
Of attack on enemy;
Raids rapacious, plunder on –
Wild attack, then it is gone.Mountains stand unmoved, and firm;
Good defense the troops have learned;
Waiting out quite patiently
Actions of the enemy.Wind and forest, fire and stone
Speak to me of Kingdom-home –
Spirit moves like a wind unseen,
Shifts us on from where we’ve been.Forest tree – refuge for birds;
Food for all; good fruit; what’s heard
As we stay attached in Him
Drawn from the stream, new growth within.Fire – the blaze of ending day;
Burning dross of sin away;
Spirit’s fire upon, within;
Brand from burning snatched to win.Mountains made of solid stone –
Zion, our eternal home;
Cast into the sea by faith;
Never moving as we wait.Images invite us in
To engage with thought – begin
To grow up as entities,
Letting us new vistas see.Thanks Lord for this.
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