The Source Of All Grief Poem by Denis Martindale

When folks are selfish to the core, the world is not enough,
The hunger grows for more, more, more without God's joy or love...
And at home, or school or college, or work, or rest or play,
If without God's love and knowledge, the soul will soon decay...
Then each sin will bear its harvest, its poison in our lives,
So souls get cursed instead of blessed and from then on each strives!
A war in Heaven and in Hell is fought for souls on Earth,
Until we bid this world farewell, our souls are all we're worth!

That's why God speaks to rich and poor, dismissing not a one,
Forgiveness offered for each flaw through Jesus Christ, His Son...
The Saviour taught us how to pray, the Father's face to seek,
That's why God's children night and day preserve this link unique...
The selfish soul is purged within, washed clean by Blood divine,
Such that it flees from every sin for which it used to pine...
Reborn with love from Heaven's Throne, God's Spirit then comes near!
To prove to us we're not alone, to make things crystal clear...

Eternity is thus revealed in Scriptures old and new,
The world is like a harvest field for Christian and for Jew...
Evangelists both pray and fast, determined still to save,
Before each life must breathe its last and bid that final wave...
The Holy Bible's maps unfold to guide how Man must walk,
To turn from silver and from gold needs more than words we talk...
Self-discipline and self-control and not self-centeredness
Will heal the damaged selfish soul for which we pray, 'God bless! '



Denis Martindale, copyright, June 2012.

The poem is based on the title of a booklet
by evangelist Andrew Wommack called
Self-Centeredness: The Source Of All Grief.

His website is awme-dot-net with more
Gospel teaching on the GOD TV channel
on 580 on Sky Digital, here in the UK...