If sin is failing to do God’s will, either by commission or omission, then we, all of us, could be said to take wrong turns in our pilgrimage through life. Sometimes it isn’t a simple matter of realising our error and turning backwards. We find ourselves in new places and new realities, with new attitudes and new responsibilities. How does God deal with this, and what does it mean for us?
In life we choose
One road over another,
Even to not decide
Is to take a certain route,
And oftentimes
We wonder at our choice,
And rue our path
By looking at its fruit.
In life we take
One way and press on,
Though sometimes
We want to stop and turn;
To go backwards
To that old junction,
Wiser, perhaps,
To revisit what we spurn..
In life we stall,
Yearning for what was,
And with hindsight
Eyes we savour the past,
And weighing up
Our present lot, we
Bemoan decisions made,
And places we’ve bypassed.
In life betimes,
We sense a turning
Wrongly taken and,
Ponder what we’ve lost.
We maybe fear
An angry God, waiting
Back there, standing
Stern, with arms crossed.
In life we feel
Alone in our selfmade
Bed – God forsaken,
Unable to retrace our steps.
If only by some
Magic time travel we
May undo what’s done,
In order to quell regrets?
In life there is
Rarely going back…
The mercy news
Is that our God is HERE,
Beside us now,
To accept us as we are,
AND where we are.
Sinner, be of good cheer!
In life our God
Doesn’t stand afar off
At past crossroads
Waiting His pound of flesh;
He keeps faith, and
Pace with us, to offer
Us new beginnings,
HERE, NOW, to start afresh!