But For You... Poem by Ola Joseph Kolawole

BUT FOR YOU..

but for Your Wisdom,
My parents won’t have existed
But for Your Knowledge,
I won’t have been formed in mama’s womb
But for Your Good thoughts,
I won’t have been born safely
But for Your breath of life,
I won’t have lived at first
But for Your Law,
I wonn’t have known what sin is
But for Your Light,
I won’t have known Thw Way
But for Your Love,
I won’t have remained in The Way.
But for Your New Covenant,
I would have paid for my sins.
But for Your Word,
I won’t have had Faith.
But for Your Compassion,
I won’t have bveen healed.
But for Your Promise
I won’t be hopeful
But for Your Grace,
I won’t have come this gfar…

How do I express my joy in its entirety?
To Him who is more than infinity
Who lives in eternity
Who reigns in sovereigntrty
Who hails from no ancestral dynasty
Yet, the greatest deity
In whom there is no enmity –
A God of possibility
And a king established on honesty…

Wao! But for You,
Who am I?

March 19,2007.