Midst Icy Grip Of Aging” (Aging Series)

Awoke just now, frustrated, like,
And realized that aging might
Not be a fun time after all –
This age and stage, since Adam’s fall –

Has been his playground – take old Job
Lost kids, and home and farm, when old;
Got scratching illness, painful friends,
Until the point where story ends.

Then, God spoke up with telling point –
“How’d you make out around your joint
When satan had a go at you,
And My protections from you flew?

“He’s been a pain to Me as well
(Let me first say what I’ve done well,
To bring to mind capacity.
I bring to bear in being ‘Me’).

“For that’s the point, there, Job – you see,
The nasty side of life can be
A challenge to the likes of God
So losing all should not seem odd –

“To one with little resource there,
When aging strips your cupboard bare;
Health’s leaving you; ‘friends’ are a pain;
And you get viewed as a means of gain”.

Quite suddenly, Job got the point –
Protective hedges ’round his joint
Enabled him to do okay
On planet earth throughout his days.

Job came back into line of thought;
Life was restored, blessed future brought
Renewal of his family life –
Enriched by viewing life aright.

Old satan was not beaten down –
For ages he’s been skulking ’round;
It takes a long time, Bible says,
To deal with him, through plan God lays –

Before our eyes – big picture shown,
Within which we might have a home,
And family, a job to do, and health –
With daily joy renewed.

But let’s, like Job, perspective, keep –
Quite suddenly, we’re up the creek,
Or dominoes come tumbling down
For us, and other folks around.

I know a guy who runs a farm
Upon volcano, where the harm
From planet Earth is in his face –
A paradigm for human race –

We get to live here out in space,
As members of the human race,
Upon our planet while it’s made,
And doing life, midst plans God’s laid.

But there is evil here as well,
Amidst volcanoes’ fiery hell;
Quite suddenly it all can end,
And hopes from pinnacles descend –

While sun shines brightly on this earth,
And life goes well on planet earth;
For evil, with its shades of gray
Can smash illusions many ways.

That’s why I wrote the Sun Tsu set
(Untwisted), to perspective get
In business-world for us in West,
When evil rips from all, the best.

For we’ve bought evil shortcuts since
The fall of Adam, swayed by prince
Of darkness – we’ve a choice, of course,
With second-chance beyond remorse.

Lord, You’ve been at this evil shtick
’Fore Adam first encountered it;
Have plan (through Christ), addressing it,
And part way through, is where we sit.

So, like volcanoes blowing up,
Old satan makes our living tough –
Here on this earth just partly done.
We’ve mix of pain, old age, and fun.

Thanks Holy Spirit for this.


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