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What Is Man?
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By Michael P. Johnson
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           What is Man?

Ere God gave man the kiss of life

Ere God brought man to birth

Before The Lord gave man his wife

God planned we’d rule the earth

 

But disobedience raised his head

Selfishness was born

Deceit became our daily bread

Fatality saw it’s dawn

 

Man’s not the being he thinks to be

Well made; The Lord to please

From Satan’s hold one’s never free

Till Christ we bend our knees

 

We’re formed inside, though how we live

Through fruits we daily bear

Through life obtained, through life we give

God thus computes one’s share

 

All flesh is just like blades of grass

Like flowers of the fields

Like morning dew, resounding brass

Enigmas, truth reveals

 

If Christ God’s Lamb were not to hand

With love with saving grace

We’d never learn to understand

We’d never see God’s face

 

But God would have blind eyes to see

The Truth unveiled on high

He’d have man’s heart and soul set free

Upon life’s wings to fly

 

Yet not of self, can this be done

Through selfish flesh and bone

But through the blood of God’s True Son

Through Christ Jesus alone!.....

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Submitted: Monday, January 21, 2013

Last Updated: Monday, January 21, 2013

About the Poet
I never wrote a word of poetry in my life. Till the day Jesus took my hand and touched my soul.....I invite your response. However most poems are not about me! Very few are. But the feed-back good, bad or indifferent is always desired. Not meant to offend, but I write about many things in many a guise. Of life, death, lost, found, saved, backsliders, new comers, repenting souls, doubting hearts, heathens, Christians, fire, water, Satan's daughter, wallowing in sin, saved, made sound walking in Light, graceful righteous. Suffering, ecstatic, bored, excited, sad, delighted, Sick, well, lame, able, living, dying, etc. etc. etc. Writing about anything, everything and everyone as the spirit leads. All meant to reveal, waken, revive, encourage, shame, help. Gladden, pick up, exalt, portrait, liberate. Again over 99% of my work is not about me. Although at times I write as though I were or am. Speaking e.g. in the first person. This is quite common even in the bible itself. Prophets speak of themselves, then God speaks, again the prophet, then God......Quite often it's difficult to distinguish whom it is that at any given time is speaking or narrating.

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