When God opens your mouth to speak

Moves you to write, draw, photograph

Perform or create

Remember:

The responsibilities we share with His Holy Spirit

Are manifold

And preordained by God’s perfect power

Why we are chosen to co-wield His power

Is a mystery

For none of us deserve His gifts

Nor will we ever be worthy of His love

Sufficient for us is the knowledge

That once He decides to do a work

Either through or for us

No power in creation

Can stand in the way of that mission’s accomplishment

So be patient when waiting for the boomerang of God

To bless you with His glorious comebacks

Be steadfast in the knowledge

That no work done in the Lord

Is initiated or testified in vain

For His laborers always get a filling measure

Of God’s grace and justice

No matter how long it takes

Or how seemingly hopeless the cause

Take heart in the knowledge

That even as you read this axiom

The wheels of God’s justice are in motion

Carrying the precious effects of His will

Into your spirit/mind and strength

So that when the time comes

The time we took to read and write this

Will be rewarded

And the faith we accepted to believe it

Can only bring us closer to realizing

The desires of our hearts

And the perfect possessions

Of heaven’s promise

John Christopher

1991