READER’S NOTE:
This is a bonus poem added to “A Crooked Path” from the book “Wilderness: A Crooked Path to the Promised Land.”
Originally I had intended on only including 5 poems from the book, but after rereading this one I decided to add it as an additional poem. “Allowances” was written on August 10th, 2010.
Allowances
by Ken Pullen
copyright 2010
Scripture used is from the King James Version and appears in Italics
As children should not decide
their allowances
nor dictate to their parent’s
neither
should man determine their own allowances
dictating to
the Father.
Yet,
it is so.
There is no love
nor respect
no truth
in children
creating their own allowances
ignoring the Father
and what He will allow.
Too many think the eating
of the forbidden fruit
happened long ago,
unaware
of the daily
constant gorging of almost everyone,
imbibing, with gluttony,
the forbidden fruits
deadly juices
dripping
from their lips.
Woe to the children
of the One True God,
the Father,
determining
what they will allow!
Rather than
turning to God’s Word
to discover what is allowed,
how they should spend
the allowance
generously given
in obedience to
the Word of God.
…and made a covenant
before the Lord,
to walk after the Lord,
and to keep His commandments
and His testimonies
and His statutes with all their heart
and all their soul,
to perform the words
of this covenant
that were written in this Book.
Cause me to hear
thy lovingkindness in the morning;
for in Thee do I trust:
cause me to know the way
wherein I should walk;
for I lift up my soul to Thee.
But if from thence
thou shalt seek the Lord thy God,
thou shalt find Him,
if thou seek Him with all thy heart
and with all thy soul.
When thou art in tribulation,
and all these things are come upon thee,
even in the latter days,
if thou turn
to the Lord thy God,
and shalt be obedient unto His voice.
Woe to them these days
which as children
allow themselves their hearts desire
rather than with all their heart
seeking, turning to God
and His infallible Word!
Seeking their own way
over the way of the Lord.
Listening to their own voice,
or the soothing voice of false teachers
rather than hearing the voice of God
resound, reprove, refine
through His Divine Word!
The more one allows
themselves
the more the Lord
will disavow knowing you.
O perverted
and so misled
heeding the words of man
instead
of turning to the Lord’s Word
in humility
and genuineness of spirit
and heart!
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