Sunday, January 20, 2013

Wall


Wall

January 7, 2013

 

I’ve come to this place where the siege is to be set;
Comrades swarm about, all of which I have long met.
 
A master among generals makes ready a tedious plan,
Carefully crafting, playing with his soldiers in the sand.
 
Tailor making the schemes to dismantle this noble foe
Fashioning flaming arrows, determining where they go.
 
No arrow tip is not designed to pierce through their arms
No efforts are spared to affect their maximum harms
 
The object is clear declares the demon who leads us;
He paces as a hungry lion, “Devour the man I must!”
 
We will manipulate, accuse, deceive to gain the edge,
Set traps, seduce, use his weakness to drive to ledge!
 
Ah, but what dogs my general the most he will say:
“That damned wall must come down—now find a way!”
 
But, plead we, “It’s guarded by the blood and prayer
Till now, we are ineffective to destroy this fortress lair.
 
This city rests on the Power so we cannot do a thing!
The city deifies you to the extent it submits to the King.”
 
Ah! if only this place had not a stone and cement wall
We could gain eternal advantage with no trouble at all!
 
His King is his strength and strong towner and might
In Him they find refuge while fixing on Him their sight.
 
We exploit; they say No! to lusts of their own desires
Unmovable on the King, this wall for a calling higher.
 
 
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In this poem, the wall is a metaphor of the protective wall surrounding a city illustrating the protective nature of the fruit of the Spirit, self control. Proverbs 25:28 says, "A man without self control is like the city without walls."

The master general Satan is devising wicked schemes to destroy God's people. Only by submitting to the King and fixing our eyes on Him do we gain strength to say "No" to the desired of our own flesh which will be manipulated to take us down. (1 Peter 5:6-11; Ephesians 6:10-20, Hebrews 12:1-2, Titus 2:11-14).

Another word for self-control is "temperance".
 
I wrote this as an entry in a contest on Allpoetry.com with the "fruit of the Spirit" as the prompt.  I won secnd place in the contest.

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