Our Own Destruction

When we reject our Lord’s instruction,
And fail to trust what He does say,
We sow the seeds of our own destruction,
And dig the holes where our bodies will lay.

For how could any good come,
From rejecting life’s sole Source?
We’ve been made blind, deaf and dumb,
As a result of this divorce.

What else should one expect,
To happen if they turn out the light?
Pervasive darkness is the effect,
When we reject God and choose the night.

For any branch that has been severed,
From the vine from which it sprung,
No matter how hard it has endeavored,
Will not the living remain among.

To all that’s righteous and good,
By sin we’ve been made dead.
Like fools we have not understood,
God alone is the source of bread.

Our loving God gave us a choice,
To give Him our love and trust.
But we did not trust His voice,
So we must return to dust.

Although in sin we’ve dug a pit,
And fallen in head first,
God’s own Son chose to submit,
And for our sin be cursed.

For Jesus Christ, the Son,
Who is fully God and man,
In perfect obedience has undone,
The doom that we with sin began.

For though we did not listen,
To our loving, gracious Maker,
Christ conquered death as was His mission,
And is to us the great Chain-Breaker.

By our own works, no one is saved,
In fact by them we are condemned.
But through faith in Him who braved,
The cross for us, we will ascend.

God’s love for us is selfless;
To die for us, He made the choice.
He saw us dead in sin and helpless,
But took our place, so we rejoice.

Though we have wrought our own destruction,
A way to be saved our God has made.
Now He gives us this sole instruction:
“Believe in Me and be remade.”