[133]. A Message From A Poem – I Am The Son Who Is Blessed

[133]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – I AM THE SON WHO IS BLESSED

This poem has as its basis the parable of the Lost Son sometimes called The Prodigal Son. The first two stanzas are set when the lost son returns home. He was lost because he was lost to sin and the degradation of that lifestyle.

Luke 15:20-24 and he got up and came to his father. While he was still a long way off, his father saw him, and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him, and kissed him, and the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son,’ but the father said to his slaves, ‘Quickly bring out the best ROBE and put it on him, and put a RING on his hand and SANDALS on his feet, and bring the FATTENED CALF, kill it, and let us eat and be merry, for this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again. He was lost, and has been found,’ and they began to be merry.}}

There are two applications made for this parable. The first is that of a sinner who comes to the realisation of his sin and is saved. The second is that of a son who lost his way and returned to the father, to his family. People are divided on its meaning but I favour the second one. The son was already in the family but had backslidden. With the trilogy of three lost things in Luke 15, all of them were owned.

This poem is not about a backsliding Christian losing salvation that some promote. In fact I am not analysing any of that. It upsets me when certain people misinterpret what the poet or writer is saying because of fixed, immovable views.

The poem is of a lost son returning to his father and then from stanza 3 onwards I deal with ME. That’s right ME. The child of God is certainly blessed, and in this poem, I transfer the blessings the father bestowed on the son, to what the Lord will do for me in heaven. Not all is literal, e.g. I am not sure about having clean sandals in heaven, but I should not have to set out each intention because some might misunderstand, and what the application is, that is being made. I think you follow the idea all right.

{{1 Corinthians 2:9 but just as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him.”}}

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I AM THE SON WHO IS BLESSED

A father’s love determined to reward

The son whose life was lost to sin

Compelling love that riches would afford

Forgave the son and brought him in.

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A robe, a ring and sandals for his feet

Were gifts the father lavished so

For this is how forgiving love will treat

Repentant sinners bowing low

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When I arrive on heaven’s shore one day

My robe, my Father will provide

The cleanest, finest linen He’ll display:

Christ’s righteousness with me inside!

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A ring upon my finger – that will show

His ownership and bond to me.

Redeemed by blood, I know that ring will glow;

Christ’s union for eternity.

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Clean sandals walk the golden streets of peace;

Christ Jesus washed my unclean feet.

Now fit to walk with Him in sin’s release,

With heaven’s sandals, He will greet.

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The fatted calf that meant rejoicing great,

Is Christ the Lord, the Lamb most blessed.

I’ll feast in heaven in my transformed state,

Eternally home in full rest.

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I am the prodigal that Jesus saved.

On heaven’s shore He’ll welcome me.

Instead of fetters that had me enslaved,

The tokens of His love I’ll see.

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Glory, Glory! I can not contemplate

The fact that Jesus I will meet.

Then all my life will culminate,

And I shall bow down at His feet.

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Most of this was done at some time in the past. Just the last stanza added 3 January 2022.

Ronald Ferguson Metre = 10-8-10-8 A-B-A-B