Sometimes I Wonder

Do you ever wonder what

A person would do

If a voice out of the blue

Spoke to them when

They did wrong to you?

That is a comical imaginative thought

But, it is not funny when

You are ostracized because,

For JESUS, you have fought.

This thought ran through my mind

When I read about how they treated

Stephen, in kind

And what had he done wrong,

Nothing at all, but be good at

Singing the gospel's song

And that lets you know, fellowman

That you and I will be treated

At times with disdain

On our life's journey long.

Just as men didn’t understand

What they were dealing when

They fell upon and stoned Stephen,

They make known their disdain for you and me

Because when they look at us

They think, "You ain't nobody special,

Just a human being, like me," because

A human being is all they see.

But, in Stephen's case, I sometimes wonder,

Had they known that he was a true servant of GOD

With GOD’s HOLY SPIRIT working within

Would they have humbled themselves

And behaved as mere mortal men

Or would they do as some men do today

And wave that thought away?©

(Based on Acts 7:59)

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Acts 7:59 NASB

 

⁵⁷ But they shouted with loud voices, and covered their ears and rushed at him with one mind.

⁵⁸ When they had driven him out of the city, they began stoning him; and the witnesses laid aside their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

⁵⁹ They went on stoning Stephen as he called on the Lord and said, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

 

Be safe.

 

Walking by faith,

Alma L. Carr-Jones