Who Can Say They're A Christian? Poem by Long Tooth

Do you say you're a Christian? You're ‘Liar! ' You're not!
Christ Himself chose a cross, but you've earned Camelot?
For no action wins favors, does dancer forgive?
News flash! Your life's a failure, truth leaks from your sieve
That can't hold love at all! Sin can't face its truth's Fall!

Well, then, where lies salvation if it's not a race!
Bud, in ‘faith, ' there aren't winners; true love has no pace
And no hymn it must sing, it just waits to serve God,
Which the schemer deems loss (or at best very odd!)
To be saved not man's goal, Grace from Christ makes us whole!

Does the money I earn mean my future's secure
Or the time I play tennis say health will endure?
Men's group offer a beer if I want to share rhyme?
Will she stay by my side as I run out of time?
Do ‘good works' prove I'm smart that are born in God's heart?

Yes, faith always is scary, we're not at the wheel,
And each day's an adventure; we can't cut a deal
That ensures we will live or escape lion's den,
It's just faith from the get-go, faith too if we win.
Oh, may God's Love exist, and in Love Grace persist!


Long Tooth
May 11 of 2019