Piercing, Dispersing Cloud Canopies (Poem)

Ever experienced a sunny day, until,

A cloud from nowhere suddenly gave you a chill?

Or a chilly day, when the sun suddenly pierced

Breaks in the clouds, with warming beauty that was fierce?

Or in a plane, on a dreary day of dark clouds,

It finally pierced that thick, dark canopy that shrouds?

You’ll have seen this, incredible sight--

The sun shining brightly, and clouds so white.

Irrespective of how dark, thick clouds may stride,

There’s a truth, they can never seem to hide:

The sun’s rays and warmth, they can only mask.

So whether it’s shining, never a cloud should you ask!

Clouds are a dividing line that can only boast of

Dark actualities below, masking bright truths above.

There are other lines that likewise divide,

Views that are false, from great truths that abide.

There are lines that divide watery worlds of earth,

From our dry world above, on the land we traverse.

Coast and water lines not only two worlds demarcate,

But also belie different world’s they separate.

Consider lines that divide all aspects of our vision,

Differences between micro and telescopic versions.

Ahhh, truthful views we can see through one thin lens,

And our understandings of ‘truth’, it will cleanse.

‘What’s your point, J!?’ , perhaps you are wondering.

Something significant, for your pondering.

God created a bright, abundant world for us to enjoy.

Sin installed dividing lines, the results of ole satan’s ploy.

Lines much worse than canopies of dark cumulus clouds,

That try their level best all sunlight and warmth to shroud.

But God has given us both the means and savoir faire,

To defeat and even transcend sin’s crafty line snares.

Transcending, we learn all about God’s Truth-ful realities,

No longer tricked by perceived, yet untrue actualities.

Through Faith in, and Grace from Christ,

working in opposite directions,

We accept His corrections, and escape satan’s deceptions.

Thus, we pierce, even disperse, sin’s dividing canopies,

And escape from being a ‘satanic sin casualty.’

Now you, too, have the choice, and also the savoir faire,

To escape the pains and penalties of satan’s snares.

Choose life in Jesus, and escape those devilish lies and tricks,

Hidden beneath sin’s canopy of polemic theatrics.

Study and learn well to live in God’s Truth,

In Christ enjoying, ‘the dew of your youth.’ *

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* Psalm 110:3