These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

The Greatest Gift I Could Receive

The Greatest Gift I could receive,
Salvation from God's Wrath,
is given to me when I believe,
and walk the narrow path.

But none of this is work I do.
It is not faith, that's seen.
To trust someone to cook for you
is never what this means.

Our parents in their Garden home
distrusted God, The Truth.
The sinful fruit they ate to roam
away from God from youth.

No sinful soul can stand before
The Lord of all that is.
Just Christ's Perfection can restore
the sonship, that is His.

He lived the life, that I could not.
He died, was buried, rose.
He showed me, that my deeds are naught,
but His deeds The Father chose.

To have New Birth in Christ Alone,
I'm brought to life by Him.
His death for sins do now atone.
I sing a lasting hymn.

'Tis not of me to ever live.
It's all of Jesus Christ.
My inability I give.
He paid the awful price.

by Jay O’Toole
on February 2nd, 2024