[277]. A Message From A Poem – The Leading Road

[277]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – THE LEADING ROAD

I hope everyone has been on higher ground where you have a really great panorama and the land and hills or ranges sweep away before you. I have seen many of these in tropical rainforested country, and below you, you may see a road leading away from your view until it disappears.

This is the thrust of the poem, the road that is leading away to a destination. In the Christian sense, that road is the journey we make towards heaven. The last stanza speaks about “distant mountains beckon me”, and that is a feeling I get sometimes in the physical sense so I transferred that to the spiritual sense.

I do believe Nature points the direction to the road that leads to God and that is the meaning behind the first stanza. God’s creation was pristine and beautiful, the one in Genesis 1, until the curse entered. Nature speaks of a Creator and must make us assess our position to the Creator. Man generally dismisses all that and slams the door shut. He wants nothing to do with “this religion stuff”.

Dismissal of God makes no difference because every single person must stand before God and give account. The unsaved will have a dreadful time – {{Revelation 20:12 “and I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life, and THE DEAD WERE JUDGED FROM THE THINGS WHICH WERE WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS, ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS.”}}

GOD HAS NOT LEFT US WITHOUT CREATION’S TESTIMONY

{{Romans 1:20 “for since the creation of the world, His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.”}}

{{Job 12:7-9 “But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you; and the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you, or speak to the earth, and let it teach you, and let the fish of the sea declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?”}}

{{Psalm 104:24-25 “O LORD, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your possessions. There is the sea, great and broad, in which are swarms without number, animals both small and great.”}}

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THE LEADING ROAD

All the beauty we behold

In creek and hill and sky;

All the petals that enfold

Their buds extended high;

All the furry, little legs

On moths that fly on by;

All these things attached like pegs

On nature’s clothes’ line, high.

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It is held up high, to view

By those who seek it out.

Sad it is that only few

Know what it’s all about.

Nature is the signpost’s hand;

God’s glories it will shout.

Listen well and understand;

Your God, you can not doubt.

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In this image look and see,

A road that leads away . . .

Distant mountains beckon me

In nature’s grand display.

Jesus is my mighty Rock

Who leads on through the fray;

Past still waters leads His flock

To His eternal day!

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25 Feb 2007 Ronald Ferguson 7-6 throughout A-B-A-B-C-D-C-D