When I am “Geniunely losing my faith,”
I turn off the radio. I stop reading my books.
I don’t even read the Bible.
I go to the state park,
I look at the animals.
I see they are good
And know the Christ;
You can even ask them.
They’ll tell you He is the LORD.
We are locked in a world of explanations
When there isn’t one to be had.
The existentialist philosophers came to a notion
That they couldn’t write down.
But Paul wrote it.
“Christ.”
I hear, “People need to reason,”
But I think it is the other extreme.
I think people need to face the reality
That Giants assail us
Dragons torment us
Fairies haraung us
And wood nymhps try to lead us astray.
Visceral is my faith
To hold and cherish what is good.
Because what is good testifies to the truth
That Jesus Christ is the LORD.
Subtle miracles every day
And the power of that confession,
Which if you could not,
Consider it is Christ Himself
Hindering you…
Because when I was astray
It could not even touch my lips.
A simple miracle, but it works.
Study the divine mircacle that just is.
Don’t try to gain an explanation for it.
Because the world could be flat,
And the whole of NASA lying to us…
We don’t know, truly.
But we do know that Christ lives
Because He lives in us.
Even if you said a word
But make sure to never say those words,
To say to God, “Depart from me.”
Because the faith is real.
The trees don’t move because of our words,
But that they move because they move.
The wind moves their branches
Just like the very Spirit of God moves us.
And in that is power, to tap into it
And to know it is real.
To know that unkindness resumes
But know the walking away from the faith
Is what you see in you.
At my lowest,
I know it is my sin that prevents me.
I blame the hypocrite, but
I am that hypocrite.
All my words chiding Christianity
It is really me I’m chiding.
Because I know in me
Is the same false spirit
Enticing the world
And that demon I need to drive from my soul
So when I see the animals praise the LORD
I know that it is men who fall away
And the whole of creation testifies to the name of Jesus Christ.
Amen.
B. K. Neifert 