About Praise and Suffering

Today I wanted to post about something my dad said Sunday. For those of you who didn't know, he had gone to the States for a bit and had got back in Saturday night. He shared some thign that had impressed him while he was at Northland. He had met some missionaries to China, but beacause of tyranny's rule there, they cannot preach the Gospel openly, or even lift up their voices to praise God during their secret services. This made me think of a verse in Acts, telling of the joy the early Christians felt to be counted wotrhy to suffer for Christ. WOW! All I can say is that we should never cease praising and thanking the Lord for allowing us to preach Jesus, and to praise Him aloud.

Light and Darkness

Light and Darkness
Some walls taken, some battles won-
Some trophies lost, some races run;
And Darkness creeps in, as a robber thru the shadows,
As slowly fades the finished light.

The heavens are blazing with searing flames
The work of the heavenly smiths;
And though we know not their names-
Their anvil in the skies tells us they are no myths.

But when their glorious display is finished
Darkness falls over the face of the deep,
And it seems to all their joys are vanquished,
As all the earth gives way to sleep.

But why despair? For beyond that ghoulish night,
Past the facade of evil and woe-
There shines, in the distance, a light,
Defeated not, but once again aglow.

So, as in the cycle of Time on Earth,
The sun comes down, yet rises again-
As we should faint not when sin gives birth,
But trust still, in the Eternal Light and Hope of Men.