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    Moon
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    Moon

    By Mark Wagner

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    This book of poetry by Mark Wagner is an original and unique production. Many of the pieces are inspired by various parts of the Bible, everything from before the creation in Genesis to after the final judgment of God; things taken from various books of the Bible, such as Job and Psalms and Isaiah, to things of the New Testament. It creates for the reader a different perspective from which the reader can draw their own conclusions. At times, it ventures into the imagination of man of what God can do. In the end, it is intended to bring you closer to God and Jesus Christ and They to you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateOct 30, 2013
    ISBN9781490810454
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      Moon - Mark Wagner

      That love

      Setting our minds on God, what do we see?

      Creation, the universe, the atom, life eternally

      Is that really it in our vision on the earth?

      Or are we byproducts of something of higher worth?

      He commanded and it stood fast, He spoke and it was done

      All that came into being through His beloved Son

      We are just a result of the love between those two

      From everlasting to everlasting, their love so true

      It couldn’t help but happen, life to the farthest reach abound

      That love between them, insufficient words to be found

      Maybe that is what He meant in the final verse of John

      It could not contain the books, this planet we’re on

      There’s so much more, so very, very much more

      This is the worst of it, this sin He does deplore

      But that love just unites them as One

      Indistinguishable between Father and Son

      The exact representation of His nature, the name which Thou gavest Me

      God gave Jesus His Name, what greater flattery could there be

      That love, beyond grasp, beyond description, beyond beyond

      To everlasting from everlasting before any light had dawned.

      To see

      To see the beauty in Jesus, the perfection of salvation

      To see the earth, the iniquity that engulfs every nation

      To look on the love of God, to appreciate that gift

      To look at man, farther away from Him we drift

      To think of Jesus on His throne, in His name we hope

      To think of man ever pushing the downward slope

      To hope in Jesus ever relying on His love

      To hope mankind seeks approval from above

      To seek the discipline, the righteousness of peace

      To seek in man the selfishness to cease

      To glorify our Savior, to glorify God Most High

      To glorify man on earth is to glorify those who die

      To smell holiness, even to sample its taste

      To smell the human condition, to look upon its waste

      To sing in praise of Jesus and glorify His name

      To sing in praise of man, we should be ashame

      To know righteousness eternally ordained from God

      To know the disdain of man, having concluded His Word a fraud

      To imagine Jesus coming, His kingdom revealed to the earth

      To imagine His wrath to those who disdain His worth.

      All is possible

      The man was a herdsman’s son, he grew up poor

      He always had enough to eat although rags he wore

      Tending after the cattle, following the flock

      Wandering through the desert, never one much to talk

      Occasionally seeing others overseeing their herds

      Usually just a wave, rarely exchanging words

      One day he met a Hebrew traveling through their land

      He told him of his God, Creator of all so grand

      The poor man had his gods, sacrificed birds and lambs

      The Hebrew too would offer cattle, goats and rams

      The poor man took offense at the Hebrew God

      Compared to his own nothing but a fraud.

      Living by the ocean in the orient was great

      His father had many ships, did well hauling freight

      From island to island he would exchange various wares

      The young man’s life was simple, unconcerned with common cares

      He had a large family, many sisters and brothers

      The business was prosperous unlike most of the others

      One day while transporting some people and goods

      He met a Jewish man abstaining from certain foods

      When he asked the man how this came to be

      The Jew talked about his God, maker of earth and sea

      The business man was skeptical, never took it to heart

      He had never worshipped a god, and wasn’t about to start

      In medieval times there were really just two classes

      The rich and powerful and the poor, enslaved masses

      He wasn’t really enslaved, but he was definitely poor

      Living in a hovel with his wife and children always needing more

      He had work to do, ever serving the king

      Though taxes and family seemed to take everything

      Then while he was laboring, tending to the crops

      A man wandered by and of Jesus he talks

      He had seen the Christian churches and wondered what was the deal?

      Thought his children would still be hungry and him poor, that was real

      The poor man went about his life, never embraced the Way

      Said, Maybe when I get older I’ll make time someday.

      The gold rush was on, everyone was a miner

      To California he ran, and a nickname Forty-Niner

      Traversing a continent seeking the treasure of gold

      Taking along his family, all not essential was sold

      Many were like him, heart and head full of dreams

      Try to sift through the fables, the illusions, the schemes

      Upon their arrival it didn’t take long to see

      Most of the best claims were taken, where does that leave me?

      He went to work for one of the biggest outfits

      Made a good living before calling it quits

      He saw churches going up all over the place

      Occasionally heard of Jesus and God and His grace

      Never one to take to Christianity

      Looked at the church and only saw vanity

      In the hospital the nurse brought them their boy

      They had waited so long for this bundle of joy

      Knowing that this young one would forever change their life

      Hoping maybe too to better them husband and wife

      The young boy grew, also got a sister

      Then came the divorce, boy, did he miss her

      Visitation was granted certain days and weekends

      It is impossible to cure what this arrangement rends

      His boy asked him about God of whom he had heard

      He told his son There is no God. Evolution’s the word

      Now before the throne of God on his knees

      Hoping with all of his heart as he pleas

      His mind is opened to an expanse of thought

      Days in a pasture, on a ship things were bought

      As a serf in the Middle Ages he was so poor

      In the orient his family, business, he couldn’t have had more

      Days in ‘the West’ working in the mines

      Other lives too, maybe dozens of times

      The day, There is no God. he told his son

      And his son his son and his son his son

      The one common bond through all of these lives

      Was that God had revealed Himself, and Him he despised

      Through poverty and riches, whether cursed or blessed

      The love of God or Jesus, he never confessed

      The judgment to begin with the household of God the plan

      With difficulty the righteous is saved, what of the godless man?

      Christian Church

      As I look at the Christian Church in the USA today

      It seems to have gotten lost somewhere along the way

      In Corinthians, I of Apollos, I of Christ, I of Paul

      Today, I of Catholic, I of Baptist, I of Protestant, et al

      Homosexuality has been condemned by the Almighty

      Today one might think it is the height of piety

      These people are not confessing and forsaking

      They are proclaiming righteousness, this abomination they’re making

      Many marriages we’re making ending in divorce

      Where are they being made? In the church, of course

      Jesus calls adultery any marriage other than one

      Not to worry after all He is just God’s Son

      Now the homosexuals want the marriage bed defiled

      Many living among us having raped a child

      As we continue walking down the road to the abyss

      The Word of God, His prophets, His Son we dismiss

      We embrace men who invent their own law

      Change it at their leisure, dismiss the Bible as flaw

      Reading the Old Testament, of the kings of old

      Some righteous, some evil is what we are told

      To receive a blessing instead of a curse

      In order for things to get better not worse

      Draw nearer to God and He will draw nearer to you

      Dismissing His Word as wrong, I can’t imagine what He would do

      How does a nation seeking righteousness, justice and truth

      Treat Almighty God and His Word as uncouth?

      Decisions

      God doesn’t think as a man thinks

      Nor does He thirst satisfied with drink

      He is not limited nor bound by time

      Nor to mans’ understanding through reason or rhyme

      God is not subject to geology or physics

      Nor chemistry nor biology whatever the mix

      He does not respond to solicitation by rote

      Given answer from God, lest man should gloat

      Nor to go to heaven do you select

      It is God who determines His elect

      You may do well to influence His choice

      Seeking to please Him that in you He may rejoice

      So what pleases God, you may say?

      That is for you to find along the way

      Some have an advantage in this information age

      But with so much information what will prove sage?

      What will your decisions be compared to the rest?

      How will you proceed to end with the best?

      Where do you knock? What do you seek?

      Where do you turn when all appears bleak?

      You have your whole life to figure it out

      To try and make sense of what life is all about

      And another life if that is your conclusion

      To figure out what’s real and what’s illusion

      Hoping maybe too God will help you along the way

      That your heart may please Him, glorify Him some day

      That He might open your eyes to righteousness and fraud

      In the beginning was the Word… and the Word was God.

      Despair

      Wandering through the city being in despair

      Looking at one another, our very souls to tear

      Asking many strangers of our lost beloved child

      Mother often weeping, fathers’ mind gone wild

      ‘We ought to stop for rest’ dad says a night approaches

      Checking in a doorway as mom her glance reproaches

      ‘It’s late, it’s cold, we’ll look more tomorrow.’

      She sits in an empty alley unable to hide the sorrow

      He draws near to comfort and think about his son

      What could have happened to him, what should I have done?

      The night passes slowly, I do believe she slept

      As dawn begins to break, in one another’s arms we wept

      Rising from our sadness, back to the task at hand

      Searching through the city for that little man

      Looking through the markets and crowds for that face

      Hoping with each moment our son to again embrace

      We have looked so long, what are we to do?

      His mother looks exhausted, his father concerned, day two.

      We start the morrow similar to the day before

      But thinking the unthinkable a thought we can’t ignore

      This child, this gift, for whom I would give my life

      He can’t be missing…look at his mother, my wife

      Where shall we go? Whom do we beseech?

      Our hearts are broken, laid bare in the breach

      What price do we pay? We’ll bear any cost?

      A time to search, a time to give up as lost

      As evening drew near to the temple they came

      The blind begging alms, the crippled and lame

      We’re crushed, we’re broken, we’re empty, we’re done

      There Mary and Joseph found Jesus their son.

      Descriptions of wonder

      Through the Bible descriptions of Divine wonder

      God’s omnipotence and omniscience beyond number

      The flaming sword to guard the way to the tree of life

      To the eternal open gates of holy Jerusalem, Jesus’ wife

      Have you ever commanded the morning or caused the dawn to know its place?

      To see eyes like a flame of fire when gazing on Jesus’ face

      Creature like a lion, the sea enclosed with doors

      Here shall your proud waves stop, even though it roars

      Knowing the way to the dwelling of light, the father of the rain

      The keys of death and Hades, a woman on a scarlet beast explain

      Has darkness a place, beholding the storehouses of snow

      Sea of glass like crystal, Christ’s face like the sun does glow

      A beast with ten horns, ten diadems, and seven heads

      Another terrifying, strong, iron teeth one dreads

      The river of the water of life, given understanding to the mind

      A rainbow like emerald, the prey for the lion does find

      Does your command cause the soar of the eagle?

      Who gave birth to the frost of heaven? Make the war horse stand regal.

      Understood the expanse of the earth, to you gates of death revealed

      From whose womb has come the ice, the chains of Pleiades sealed

      Have you seen the bridge of lost things? The hiding place of thunder.

      Sheol and Abaddon open before the Lord, chambers of death

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