God’s Command by Spurgeon: the following poem is taken from “Christ Our All”, a collection of Charles Spurgeon’s poems. As I grow older my taste for Christian poetry has increased. I’m currently using this wonderful book as a morning devotional, and I intend to review it in the future.
The meaning and words of this particular poem are appropriate in any era of the church; but I think especially now. Charles Spurgeon and J. C. Ryle were astonished at the level of depravity and evil in their time. They warned about impending wrath. I must wonder what they’d say to us now. Think of the mass of pre-born baby murders. Perhaps more than ever, the wrath of God is indeed pending.
God’s Command
Away, far above the ethereal sky,
There lives in grand abodes
Beings of stature very high,
Who guard the eternal roads.
In infinite space, they fly abroad
On errands from their King
And ceaselessly the utter, Lord
And songs of glory sing.
There sounds throughout the vast extent
A voice at which they bow;
And through creation, rocks are rent,
Mountains and hills lie low.
A summon issues from the throne,
A giant angel flies
Close to the throne and falling down
Awaits the word to rise.
“Go tell the nations this decree’
Publish throughout the earth.
Vengeance is loos’d, and he will be
The end of all their mirth.”
The guilt of generations come,
And cry for vengeance due;
The hosts of earth await their doom.
And every sinner too.
Prepare, ye myriads of the tombs,
Tell why ye should not go
To where no hope, or mercy comes,
The place of endless woe.
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