The Ought in Drought (Poem)

There is so much incredibly great insight,

In God’s modus operandi, tripartite.

If only we would take the time to pray and ponder,

There would be less about which we would need to wonder!

He’s painstakingly given us examples and clues,

And His wisdom in earth He has willingly infused,

About how to quench hell’s fiery darts to us hurled,

And thus enhance quality of life in our world.

His modus operandi, en principe, ¹ 

Is quite simple, yet also very deep.

After centuries of historical examples,

To Jeremiah He made it clear and notable.

Hundreds of examples to us He’s given,

To show us how He rules on Earth from Heaven:

‘In Earth I am, north, south, east and also west,

Exercising Grace, Judgment and Righteousness.’ ²

In response to sin, Grace is His first answer,

Because He’s loving, kind and slow to anger.

When Grace runs out, as it most certainly will,

Then folk must swallow His bitter Judgment pill.

Judgment seems to leave Righteousness in its wake,

As the surviving remnant learns what’s at stake!

But with us humans, Righteousness is short-lived,

As to this remnant sin becomes attractive.

Pondering and reading of His examples,

Here is a Truth that to us He signals:

Because for Judgment, He’s in no great hurry,

He ramps up warnings of His pending fury!

One type of warning is very worthy of note,

The opposite of why Noah built his great boat:

Noah heeded warnings of a coming flood.

Our warning is the drying up of …earth’s blood.

If my meaning is not so conspicuous,

In Earth, water-to-blood is analogous.

Water, often a symbol of The Spirit of Grace,

With mounting sins, droughts have signified

growing dis-Grace.

But even in a drought, God has left us a clue,

And because I care, I will now share it with you!

Nestled in ‘drought’ is the obscure word, ought,

With a connection that’s no longer taught!

God wants us to heed His signal and messages,

To repent of sins and avoid their ravages.

But we’ve taken the word, ought, out of drought, 

Thus we keep drinking from God’s judgment spout.

Since we discovered the science of drought,

We‘re now blind, and our pride has become stout. ³

We are now clueless of drought as God’s ‘EWS’,

His Early Warning System of Grace’s egress.

When we remove ‘ought’ from drought,

we are left with ‘Dr.’

Thus we rely more on the scientific hawker.

With God’s deeper insights put inside a locker,

To get messages to us, He shouts ...LOUDER!!!

So now with this refreshed wisdom and Godly insight,

About drought, let’s get spiritual heads screwed on right!

Let’s put ought back into understanding drought,

And about it’s meaning, let’s dispel all doubt.

In drought, we ought…

          …To ponder, pray and be penitent about sins

          …To seek God earnestly about the state we’re in ⁴

          …To see drought as an EWS of God Who’s patient

          …To know He’s warning us of more pending Judgment

Here’s one more insight for the Biblically astute,

And for you who may decide my advice to refute:

Zechariah reveals even in Christ’s Millennial Reign,

He’ll still judge sinful people and nations by

…withholding rain! ⁵

~o~

Prolonged pangs produce people

prostrated in productive prayer! 

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¹ French for in principle

² See: Jeremiah 9:23-24. Ezekiel 14:12-23 summarize The Lord’s judgment instruments, His 4 terrible ‘judgment henchmen’. But only ‘the wise’ will read and really …get it! 

³ Spiritually blind

⁴ Including how to honor God in life, and in environmental management

⁵ See: Zechariah 14:16-19