November 27, 2020

What Would Jesus Do?

life can be a challenge

choice, consequential or cataclysmic

could lie in wait at any turning

the road skirt meadow or mountain

too sudden confronts Life with life

force the choosing of the choice

ever after one’s companion

Jesus loves the sinner, this I prove

each time I plead “Have Mercy!”

has borne upon Himself my own pain

to share with me His life, His mercy

removing any condemnatory stain

but how far, how far His mercy

does His blessing flow while in error

to the point to bless the error’s end

or does His blessing those repentant

reclaim them to His fold

He celebrated sinners, we are told

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

pull no punches but hold Him fast

to those both despised and scorned

unreceiving grace of those forgiven

rejoicing His welcome and His care

yet He told them once and often

“I will not condemn; no longer sin.”

I do not know what Jesus would do

without fail in all occasions

other than to know He would love

reach His mercy through our sin

relentless claim us from our doom

He may never bless our outcome

Who will bless us with His rescue

at each step along the way