What therefore can save
a man to sin enslaved?
Can he find it with his hands?
Can a blind man release his bands?
Perhaps through his speech
by words to God beseech?
No.
Only by the blood of the Lamb
will man satisfy the great I AM.
By grace the Spirit indwells,
filling man as ink in a well.
That the author’s pen may drink
enabling him and He to be in sync
Hands and mouth now guided
by the faith God provided.
If a man told you that a beautiful garden had been planted in his plot of land, yet after time had passed there is not even the smallest green shoot starting up from the soil, there are only a few possibilities;
What then would be your advice to this man? Would you complement his beautiful garden year after year? Tell him to rely on the day that the garden was planted as proof of a future harvest?
Both may be easier for you, but when winter comes they will starve. No, they must go to the seed and examine it, begin anew, that’s their only hope for the future.