Faithful Lines

You might do well

Following rules

Giving

Helping

And life may may wonderful

Or terrible 

Or, more likely, a mix of both

You might 

Live in corruption

Hurting

Being selfish

And life may be terrible

Or wonderful 

Or, more likely, a mix of both

You can feed the hungry

Give to the poor

Help the widows

Parent the orphans

And you may be healed

Or you may not

Because this is not a points system

This is an overlapping

Of God’s common grace

And His specific mercy

In a broken world

In which we don’t fully understand

How to obey

Or what lessons we need to learn

And what the plan will be

To learn those lessons

Or to live out that knowledge gained

You will live under His wing

But it will still rain

Your house may stand

But it will still flood

And life may be blessed

And sanctified 

And holy

And set apart

Yet within the mess

It will be

A mix of both

Like Jesus

All God

All man

We are not given to understand fully

We are asked to live meekly