(For a PDF file of this poem, see the very end)
If God was a super hero, villains
Just might have a chance,
But, not because of cunning, or
An armed and mighty stance.
For God, He is omnipotent,
There’s nothing He can’t do,[i]
And in His omniscience, knows
Their thoughts before they do.[ii]
So, if they thought of scheming, He
Could make them like the beasts,
Then send them out into a field,
Where on the grass they’d feast.[iii]
Or infect them with diseases
By sending deadly germs,[iv]
Or He could simply strike them down
And feed them to the worms.[v]
And if they had an army, He
Could turn them on each other,[vi]
Strike them with great hailstones or[vii]
One plague after another.[viii]
Or consume with fire, the leader and
The soldiers who would follow,[ix]
Have a forest kill them, [x]or just
Tell the earth to swallow.[xi]
Or He could confuse their language
So none of them could talk,[xii]
So they couldn’t work together,
Cooperation, He could balk.
Or He could just send some animals,
Snakes to bite with stealth,[xiii]
Hornets,[xiv] lions,[xv] etcetera or just
Do the job Himself.[xvi]
Or He could decide to blind them[xvii]
Or just restrict the light,[xviii]
So none of them could see and, thus,
None of them could fight.
Or if they advanced in warships,
Their attack, soon to begin,
He could simply place them back
At their point of origin.[xix]
Then He could stop the rain for years,[xx]
Their plants would never bud,
Or take all of their water and
Just change it into blood.[xxi]
And if the problem was too broad,
He could just flood the planet,[xxii]
Or consume it with a raging fire,
All life and even granite.[xxiii]
Or if He chose to loose His grip,
Creation falls apart,[xxiv]
Then no more would there ever be,
The beating of a heart.
No, the only chance that villains have
When dealing with our God,
Comes not from our abilities, but,
Because He knows we’re flawed.
He gave us life, to love Him back,
And this required free-will,
But, doing even one thing wrong,
Requires that blood will spill.[xxv]
And each of us has chosen wrong,
Yes, each of us have sinned,[xxvi]
We’re all lawbreakers and villains,[xxvii]
Our wrong, we can’t defend.
But in justice, love and mercy,
Before creating time,[xxviii]
Our loving God, He planned the way
To pay for every crime.
He’d step into the world He’d make,
Yes, He’d become a man,[xxix]
So He could take our punishment,
This was His awesome plan.
So about two-thousand years ago,
He came to set man free, [xxx]
From guilt, by dying on a cross,[xxxi]
And now calls you and me
To turn from sin, to turn to Him,[xxxii]
To avoid the fires of Hell,[xxxiii]
To drink of His eternal love[xxxiv]
A deep and endless well.
He loves and wants to save us all,
Not judge us for our sin.[xxxv]
Heaven’s glory is forever and
He wants to bring us in.
But justice, oh, it must be served,[xxxvi]
And there are but, two ways,
Hell or Jesus sacrifice,
For our sins to pay.
So He’s calling now to change us
From a villain to His child,[xxxvii]
To accept Him as our Father and
To sin, not be beguiled.
But the call won’t last forever,
There is a point too far,
As people in the past have learned
In ways, sometimes bizarre.
*** If a person claims that the universe does not have a Creator, who naturally can control His creation, then they are claiming that the existence of nursing mammals, male and female reproduction and million other systems of irreducible complexity are purely accidental. God calls that person a fool!
Proverbs 14:1
[i] In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 / And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. Genesis 1:14-15
[ii] Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts? Matthew 9:4 / Jesus answered, “I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.” Luke 22:34
[iii] You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like cattle. Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes.” Immediately what had been said about Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. Daniel 4:32-33
[iv] After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels. In the course of time, at the end of the second year, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great pain. 2 Chronicles 21:18-19
[v] Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died. Acts 12:23
[vi] When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the LORD caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. Judges 7:22
[vii]As they fled before Israel on the road down from Beth Horon to Azekah, the LORD hurled large hailstones down on them from the sky, and more of them died from the hailstones than were killed by the swords of the Israelites. Josiah 10:11
[viii] Let my people go, so that they may worship me, or this time I will send the full force of my plagues against you and against your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth. Exodus 9:13-14
[ix] Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then fire fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men. 2 Kings 1:10
[x] The battle spread out over the whole countryside, and the forest claimed more lives that day than the sword. 2 Samuel 18:8
[xi] As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, with their households and all Korah’s men and all their possessions. They went down alive into the grave, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community. Numbers 16:31-33
[xii] The LORD said, . . . Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” Genesis 11:6-7
[xiii] Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. Numbers 21:6
[xiv] I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way. Exodus 33:28
[xv] When they first lived there, they did not worship the LORD; so he sent lions among them and they killed some of the people. 2 Kings 17:25
[xvi] That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. 2 Kings 19:35
[xvii] As the enemy came down toward him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Strike these people with blindness.” So he struck them with blindness, as Elisha had asked. 2 Kings 6:18
[xviii] So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days. No one could see anyone else or leave his place for three days. Exodus 10:22-23
[xix] Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading. John 16:21
[xx] As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word. 1 Kings 17:1
[xxi] Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood. Exodus 7:20
[xxii] The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet. Every living thing that moved on the earth perished–birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. Genesis 7:20-21
[xxiii] But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. 2 Peter 3:10
[xxiv] For by him all things were created: . . . and in him all things hold together. Colossians 1:16-17
[xxv] . . . without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. Hebrews 9:22
[xxvi] There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 3:22-23
[xxvii] For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, . . . Romans 5:10
[xxviii] Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. Psalm 90:2
[xxix] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. John 1:1,14
[xxx] For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance–now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant. Hebrews 9:15
[xxxi] For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous 1 Peter 3:18
[xxxii] Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out . . . Acts 3:19
[xxxiii] “Then he will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.’ Matthew 25:41
[xxxiv] The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; Jeremiah 31:3
[xxxv] He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9
[xxxvi] He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he. Deuteronomy 32:4
[xxxvii] How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! 1 John 3:1
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