Chain Mail

The blessing appears,
"God will give you all your heart's desires,"
March ought to be a good one.
Like the video if you believe.
I'm into April,
Tempted like I am with Chain Mail
To avoid the curse.

Oh, please, believe the report of blessing.
I believe in Christ Jesus.

My hopes are dashed this month,
As some dandy from Great Britain
Tells me, "Just believe you'll be prospered."
What about Job?
Is that not the very advice his friends gave him?
Even Elihu?
Whom God said darkened counsel with words without knowledge?

I know I will be prosperous, at some point.
I know I will have a wife,
Yet Job even said, "Had God answered me,
"I would not believe it."
As if the dejection of Job
Which was not a sin,
Was cursed by the video to be a sin.

I hope this reaches that person.
There is no power in incantations,
Prayers, blessings,---
Curses, blasphemes,
Enchantments.
Yet, there certainly is,
In the sense that a lie breaks the hope,
An evil eye breaks the spirit
And a kind word lifts the burden of the yoke.

To say, "This month you will see great prosperity!"
Is it not a false prophecy?
Did not Isaiah and Jeremiah have evil only to say?
Yet, Isaiah said, "And a virgin will be with Child,
"Believe." Believe that the virgin is with child
And that she gives birth.
Therefore, salvation is accomplished.
For the child, if we believe, is our salvation.

Work produces results.
I've put much work into the ether,
I will see results.
Yet, the danger is the dejection one feels
After being hopelessly told,
"All your dreams will come true,
"If you just believe in God!"
Was this true for Paul?
Who died by Nero's Guillotine? 
Who spent most of his geriatric life
In prison, in chains, with no one to comfort him?
What if some fool came to him and said,
"Oh, Paul, tomorrow, if you just believe,
"You will be taken out of prison, and made a free man!"
Moreover, was not Paul in prison because he persecuted the church?
Yet, God did not hold it to his account,
For Paul would not have been in prison
For persecuting the Church
Had he of not converted.
He'd be celebrated like Byron is today
For living a riotous and drunken, carousing
Incestuous, homosexual,
Violent, abusive, and neglectful, murderous life.
He'd be celebrated for that.
And he would have spent not even a day in prison
Had he not been a Christian.
For, why did he see Caesar?
Was it not for his Christianity?
And at his trial, he confessed to martyring Christians?

Yet, it was not for martyring Christians that Paul suffered in chains.
The whole world could care less the reason he was in chains.
Rather, they only cared that he was a Christian;
And for that reason, was the true reason Paul was in chains.
I could never suffer that, therefore, God will---in my greatest hope---
Absolve me of the crimes I committed.
As I'm not even like Job,
For I had lurked at my neighbor's doorstep in my very lustful youth.
Before I had a conversion, and before I chose to do what is right
Over what is wrong.
May God have mercy on me,
But do not tempt my heart with falsehoods
Saying, "Only just believe, and it will all get better."
It will get better, when God answers me
And rebukes Elihu for my sake.
Whether I believe or not, it makes no difference.
Save that I believe in the Son of God, Jesus Christ.