Which End Up? Election? Free Will?
Doug Blair 1951 (London)
Had a dream where
Wesley and Whitefield
Duked it out
Holiness or Reformed
Choosing versus Chosen
Cautious versus Care-free.
They went toe to toe
Blow for blow.
Looked as if Referee
Was Jordan Peterson.
They had been school chums
Intense study/prayer
But Hebrews Letter
And Second Peter took
Them in different directions.
Oh, and there was
Also Wesley’s Method
Visiting, serving the Marginalized.
Love inspired?
Duty inspired?
Whitefield cried out
Works, flesh, futile
Whitefield chanted
Only the Blood
Only the Cross
What more ever possible?
Wesley cried out
Might lose it
Abuse it, repent!
Keep short accounts.
Whitefield just smiled
God chose it, friend.
Never to fail. Elected.
Gave them to His Son.
And through the ages
Christendom spars
Tries to lasso the stars.
Brethren following the
Path of their Lord
Word for Word.
In a puzzle that
Will not be solved
Until cosmos dissolves.
Paradise devolves.
Lighten Up…just Love.
Just Serve, hands joined.
Heart over head, every time.
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Written on February 11, 2023
Submitted by dougb.21370 on February 11, 2023
Modified by dougb.21370 on February 11, 2023
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