Job 36:13-14 

13 “But the hypocrites in heart store up wrath;
They do not cry for help when He binds them.
14 They die in youth,
And their life ends among the perverted persons.

 

 

What is youth ... is it how you are?

You know deep inside the way you feel

as the world filters through your perspective

 

Who am I deep inside ... the one who lives in this shell?

Body, soul and spirit you say ... but what part of me survives?

The body goes back to dust I know ... and the spirit is forever

so the issues are filtered in the soul ... where part of me resides?

 

A living soul is what we were in our father Adam.

A dying entity it became after the Fall.

So when we are born into this world one thing is for certain

that we are dead in spirit ... and that is a fact after all.

 

So with the body dead and the soul in the same condition

can man’s spirit be alive ... when everything is dead?

How could one ever know ... if two thirds of his being

is where his awareness rests ... of the one third in distress.

 

What is youth and what is age ... where is the difference defined?

Can one be born old ... or in age die as a child?

Where is temporal ending ... and Eternity beginning?

Is not that such that Eternal swallows temporal with a smile?

 

So temporal is the illusion ... and “time will be no more”,

is possibly the answer ... that time never was?

At least the way we see it ... and explain it every day

It seems to measure iniquity only ... in history’s foggy path.

 

The only light that shines through ... as we are looking back,

is the presence of the Lord Jesus ... in the memory called ages.

The only part worthwhile ... in this sea of misery

is the Prince of Peace ... Who reaches from God’s pages.

 

Yes if this world never was ... Christ still would be Almighty.

If I had not been born ... He would still have been Lord of all.

No matter all the rhetoric ... that flows from lifeless spirits

the one thing that is certain ... is that God created all.

 

To think any other way ... is possibly the perversion

that flows from depravity ... and is rotten to the core.

It seems to be the idol ... that the flesh keeps hanging on

trying to justify itself ... as it knocks on every door.

 

Jan Wienen