I RAISE MINE EBENEZER*

 

What monument will you bring

Home to Christ the King…

Be it gold

Or words untold,

Or a salvation song to sing?

–

Will He take the trouble

To accept wood or stubble…**

That will expire

In fire,

Leaving you burnt-up rubble?

–

Heavenly gold is found

In souls all around…

Believers must

Help them to trust

In Son of God’s safer ground.

–

The Apostle Paul’s testament***

Were the ones to whom he was sent…

By Spirit’s call

Preaching Christ, Lord of all,

Discipling as he went.

–

Except for our mortal chains, we

Cannot aim for higher than he…

Who poured his life

Out in spiritual strife,

Saving souls for eternity!

 

–Jonathan Caswell

* Ebenezer…a monument of remembrance (see 1 Samuel 7:12 )

** wood…stubble:  1st Corinthians 3:12

***AUTHOR’S NOTE:  Maybe the Poet got his meanings fouled up…this poem seems more in line with 1st Corinthians, than 1st Samuel!  But Paul did call, in 2nd Corinthians 3:1-3, the churches he discipled for Christ his own references in regard to his own work for Christ’s Gospel.   —J.E.C.