These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

On Fire

The candle burns to light the room.
Just one can chase the darkest night.
The blackness fills the awful tomb,
but Christ explodes in awesome light.

The stony heart is cold as death, (Ezekiel 36:26-27)
but Christ removes it, leaves the flesh.
The broken core receives His Breath.
This life is new and ever fresh.

My'dentity is Christ in love.
I am the one He says I am.
My life on Earth is from Above.
I live in Joy through His great Plan.

The winds of change will candles snuff.
Timidity will cower quick,
but wildfire through the tow's enough
to rout the land and make us sick.

Be 'ware the fire, that burns in thee.
the Holy Spirit tenders flax, (Matthew 12:20)
but Judgment Calls the world will see
are from the man, who knows he lacks.

On fire, God's Spirit burns thy dross
that thus consum-ed lives be sought.
The worthless be thine only loss,
that gold be given quite unbought.

On fire of God lost souls be saved,
Rejoicing's Crown, the preacher's heart.
Believing ones no more enslaved
are free to love Christ from the start.

by Jay O'Toole
on October 21st, 2020