"Under-estimate Your Enemy" [Fawcett #32] (Acts 2:19-25)
If you would take a threatening stance,
And build an airstrip far advanced
Into their sphere of influence,
Then maybe see to its defence.For if you lose it they will take
Your efforts there, and soon will make
Their base to turn those guns around,
And from that base be triumph bound.Or if you win in first attack,
Don’t walk away, let them come back;
Or think, “It’s nothing overall”,
So reinforcements dally, stall.For when you wake up finally,
And bigger issue come to see,
Too late indeed will all this be,
On a tiny land-base in the sea.So too with “little” sins we face –
“ ’Tis nothing, far from my disgrace”,
We say until we then wake up,
Say to ourselves, “That’s far enough”.But it’s too late – it’s gone too far;
The game has changed, we tiny are
Against a foe grown large within
Perimeter of space we’re in.Lord, open up our eyes today,
As we live out our lives Your way,
Lest little things which seem too small
To matter much, defeat us all.Thanks Lord for this.
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