You wake me up each day and then again.
Oh God, you are the essence of the good.
All goods and services that ever had
a speck of goodness in them, truly could
be called the good's; and services “not bad”
that were for building up, and serving well,
are thereby sourced from you our very “Dad”.
A sadness is that we may bring a “hell”
into the world made good. So very sad
indeed, that God was “grieved in heart” himself.
A God, who did not baulk at bearing grief
sounds not to be a god who’s in good health.
But that is just our self serving “belief”
based on our own ideals, & not his way.
The scriptures here tell a report that’s short
& to the point, & this is what they say
that he was grieved in ways that we’d purport
as truly good, creative, true, and right.
But I could not myself have guessed at this.
This is what keeps a poet up at night.
The root and flow’r essential of goodness
would now bear grief, for us. He chose this free.
He calls us to come follow, and then go
with God to places he chooses to be.
And we would, like Pete grow, to not say “No!
I never knew this man”. (I’m glad he wept!
For Pete was us, there in that story, we
would, like him too have claimed much, but have slept.
I’m glad you helped that rooster count to three...
Notes
. “And God saw that it was (very) good.” (7 times, in Gen 1)
. This only have I found: God created mankind upright, but they have gone in search of many schemes.’ (Ecclesiastes 7:29 NIVUK)
. “And God was grieved to his heart, that he had made the Adarm” (Gen 6)
. It is in God’s essential nature to be unconstrained, except by himself and his word, i.e. to be able to choose.
. In Christ we have now been made “partakers of the divine nature” (2Peter 1: 3-11)
. Peter’s boast that even if all the others forsake Jesus; he never will.
. Jesus’ prophecy, provoking Peter’s boast, and immediately after it, that they would all (including Peter) forsake him & fall away, and that Peter, far from never forsaking him, would three times deny knowing Jesus, then the rooster would crow (three times).
. The (4 fold) story of the events in the 4 tellings of the one gospel (commonly called “gospels”) “according to Matthew, according to Mark, according to Luke, according to John.
. Compare Judas & Peter… then recall a sure saying: “If we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he will also deny us; if we are faithless, he remains faithful— he cannot deny himself. (2 Timothy 2:11-13 NRSVUE)
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