What Has Become Of You, My Ephesus? Poem by Sylvia Frances Chan
What Has Become Of You, My Ephesus?
I want to tell you about Ephesus, a well known and coziest town on earth during the earliest times when serving God, but those moments can happen nowadays too since God is still the same God, then and now.
What has become of you, my Ephesus?
For those who equate 'love' with 'works',
it's obvious that Ephesus had lost its zeal.
Perhaps the prayers they did and the meetings were lifeless
Perhaps their works of service were done
without any real enthusiasm, that saddest was,
it's not hard to find churches like this in our time.
The usual remedy is that churches like this need to straighten up.
do things instantly according to their soul.
they need to confess their sin of apathy,
repent and get busy and work hard for Jesus.
If they don't, bad things´re going to happen, I reckon.
lampstands will be removed.
preach a message like this and
the church will soon be back out on the street witnessing
as if their lives depended on it.
They will be zealous, but joyless.
They will be earnest, but fruitless.
And in a year or two they will be worn out
and lifeless once again.
No, the real problem with Ephesus was,
that they had forgotten: They are beloved children of God.
His love for them and
never may be based upon their love for God
Remember forever God's love for us,
never must be our love for Him.
We must never forget: we are beloved children of God.
God's love for us that we must pay attention to and
never must be our love for Him be more important than
His Love for us,
please learn, study and then you shall know
this slight difference which is, in fact,
a VERY BIG SUBJECT
to keep serving God as the best we can,
I repeat here: pay attention to His Overwhelming Love for us,
know what it means and serve Him like that.
We need to confess our sin of apathy,
repent and get busy and work hard for God,
since He loves us so overwhelming much and
this must give us a precious, cherished feel and
so we want eagerly work hardest for Him, since
by serving Him in this way,
we will get back our zeal, and
our work for God will give very fruitful periods to us.
© Sylvia Frances Chan
Poetess, Evangelist and World Traveler.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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God is almost same and this city is also in memory. Ephesus has shining effect in this poem in imagery drawn here. The usual remedy is that churches like this need to straighten up. This is amazing of course. God loves us ever and we should pay attention to his love. Very nice poem is presented from core of memory...10
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