Transformational Terror Tactics (Poem)

Our tongues are our brushes; our heart supplies the paint.

Our words form the images on the canvas of our lives.

They reveal an image once clear, but now is quite faint.

It is this fading image, Friend, I hope my rhyme revives.

The once clear, but now fading image of which I speak,

Has left us with a painting that is so very flawed.

I’m wondering, has your curiosity been piqued?

That to which I refer is …our fading Fear of God.
(FoG)

We painted Him with rainbow colors, full of loving Grace,

Forever forgiving us, all our wrongs to overlook.¹

But the one color on Him, we’re all inclined to erase,

Is Him as our ‘Judge Ultimate’, as noted in His Book.²

Into each life, He has poured an attractive quality.

It’s unrelated to how others to us may react.

Do you think it is your magnetic personality??

No. It’s from Him what your lifestyle quality will attract.

Here’s something we down play, because we refuse to see:

Sin is a magnet, attracting its due wages.

We so ignore the direct ‘cause - effect linking key’.

This is the clear lesson from the Bible’s pages.

Another magnet is the righteousness walk,

But many of us prefer to deny its link,

To outcomes it attracts from God’s blessing vault.

This, too, we downplay, so at doing right, we wink.

When the wages of sin we do attract,

We wonder, ‘How could a loving God allow THAT?!’

To us it may well feel like ...a terror attack!

Thus we roll up and toss, our God-welcoming mat! ³

Though like terror attacks, wages of sin may seem,

Just know they’re only paid, when sin has been rampant.

But if by them all, you refuse to be redeemed,

Then you will become God’s lesson ...for a remnant.⁴

Current days of terrorizing attacks the world over,

May seem like something dark, and so very verboten.

Under the sun, there’s really nothing new to uncover.

It’s just more of us, and 24-hour reporting.

Is it terror to apply pressure to ‘flip’ convicts,

Or strong tactics to flip enemy combatants??

Why think God shouldn’t do the same, in love that restricts,

With motives to flip YoU, or on looking remnants?!

‘If there is a calamity in a city,

Will not The Lord have caused it?’ ⁵ Still we don’t get it!

We downplay this Bible verse. Oh, how unwitty!

Thus in our mouths, we refuse His …correcting bit.

Though quite a reluctant Judge is He,

Sadly, His terrorizing tactics are effectual.

Still our Judge Ultimate He must be,

When at His admonishing Word we no longer tremble.

When to repentance His blessings fail to lead,⁶

And at His Word we will no longer tremble,

Our reluctant, but Judge Ultimate succeeds,

With terrorizing tactics, effectual.

Don’t be mistaken. Sins still attract their due wages,

Sins personal, societal or national.

Unless repented, there’ll be some form of death’s stages.⁷

You see...

God’s judgments are meant to be …transformational.

His righteous judgments, administered in loving grace,

Are always designed to change hearts, minds and ways.

They’re aimed to save you, or an observing remnant race,

From destructive sinfulness that to eternal death sways.

But for those of us who respond with disdain,

And who refuse to walk in His righteousness,

There is only one recourse that will remain:

They’ll know the full wages of their wickedness.

God used/will use His terrorist tactics through…

--Moses to free from Egypt the Israelites

--Joshua to destroy the city of Jericho

--Gideon to defeat thieving Midianites

--David to force nations into his portfolio

--Assyrians to enslave Israel’s ‘10 tribe slice’

--Chaldeans to force Judah in Babylon to trudge

--Rome to whip and then slay Jesus, God’s sin sacrifice

--Rome to fertilize seeds of the Church in Christian blood

--Hitler to trigger a new world order; promise land restored

--Six Days of War to transfer Jerusalem’s control

--Angels’ bowls of vengeful wrath on the God-rejecting poured

--His nuclear response, turning armies into charcoal

Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord

we persuade men.

(2 Cor.5:11)

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¹ Really, this narrow view of Jehovah God is …a MYTH!

² God has committed ALL judgment to Jesus Christ.

³ Honestly, have you and/or someone you know said/done this?

⁴ An ‘attentive, perceiving remnant’ who will learn from your punishments, typically people who will turn to righteousness …after you have been taken out of the picture.

⁵ God, Himself, posed this question in Amos 3:6.

⁶ The blessings of The Lord [should, are intended to] lead to repentance, per Romans 2:4).

⁷ But because of Grace, this may be delayed, extending more and more time for repentance.

⁸ See: Terror of God