"Choose In-Deed" [Ten Commandments as Panels of Hockey-Rink Boards Series - #1C] (Ex. 20:1-3; Josh 24:14-28; Judges 4:4-9; John 21:15-25 +)

He says, “Choose ye this day for God,
Or gods ’round here upon this sod;
Or gods from yesteryear – your dads’
Folks worshiped (my view – somewhat sad)”.

They said, “Yes, yes – today we’ll serve,
And from His ways we will not swerve;”
But they, like us, found saying “Yes”
Was easier than life at best.

But, back to me, agenda mine –
How ’bout my calendar of time?
“It’s cleared of all the rubbled past?
All clear for Kingdom-life? A blast!”

Well, yes and no – it’s best to say
My life’s a mess – untidy way
To do one’s life, I must admit;
And me? I on this curbstone sit.

“Hey Stu – I hear you calling out
For help – come here, or hear about;
What do you wish – or will, that is,
I do for you in land of biz?

“For that is where you are assigned –
Like Deborah, in land of blind
Who came to her for insight given
To them, who with their kin had striven.

Have you tossed out the gods they served
Down there in days of yore – on earth?
It’s not the same as Kingdom-layer,
Though here’s not perfect land of prayer.

“For lots gets dragged up from the past,
Has been that way, no doubt will last
Until ‘That Day’ – fish-sorting time,
When all will see which ones are mine.

So gods from yesteryears down there,
Or here – I ask now, ‘Do you care
For them or Me? Like Peter’s day
When we had breakfast by the bay.”

I’m hearing, Lord, a calendar
Of servant is not what’s preferred
By servant – more the will of Lord,
And subject to His spoken word –

Word now, or written on some page
Of manual for servants – “Gauge
Behavior by obedience
Within a given circumstance”.

How radical this journey is –
“No other gods” first panel’s biz;
“Acknowledgments” at first of book
Says much the same – “At Christ I look”.

For fathers of our earthly home,
Give life, and rearing, Scripture’s tome;
Crossed cultured mix; made TCK;
Then eased my journey on His Way.

‘God of my fathers’ was okay
For them – it is each time that way –
For I’m from different cultured mix,
And from each parent things exist.

But You, O Lord, in Spirit form,
Appeared, helped to me to life re-form;
We’ve lumped along for years and years
’Till now that Kingdom-layer is clear.

God of my fathers I forswear;
As well such gods on Kingdom-layer;
Help me to sift, let go when seen,
That life might rise o’er mean and mean.

Thanks Lord for this.

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