JOYFULLY YOURS

 

Your first love was the one perfect one, that should never end;
Only blue skies and happiness and not a bit of wayward sin.

Yet, it's been years since you came to the Lord;
Why are you now so distant;
why is it so hard?

Why does it bother you to put God first;
The life you are living is now at its worst.

You know the promises, the things He has said;
Yet you neglect to proclaim the things you have read.

When have you prayed last, I mean REALLY prayed;
Longer than just a moment; when have you really stayed?

I had a thought, one that could have come as a scare;
If I hadn't changed my ways, a while ago, back there.

WHY would a Father most Divine,
create a Heaven around His throne;
And bid you as His own to come in,
and greet you, "Welcome home!";

Why would He do that, if He really didn't know you at all;
What if your voice He could not even recall??

Sounds more like a stranger to me, I hate to say;
Someone that will be sent far from the Father;
sent to Hell to stay.

You have certainly walked away from the ways of the Lord;
Don't ask then why your pathway is so rocky and hard.

God has not changed;
God has not moved away;
But you have left your first love;
the price has already been paid.

Why would you leave a sure ticket to Heaven's best;
All for a world of endless turmoil and stress??

Walk back to the Cross, and find the Lord again;
Get a relationship with Him as He first did intend.

Return oh, weary one, to the portals of home;
The Father is still there, patiently calling out to His own.

 

Joy Marie Parker