Peniel Part 1: <br /> <br />The armies are amassing – but the Lord withholds his breath. <br />The prince of peace defends, but will we finally accept the lesson of his suffering and death? <br /> <br />The horsemen are called out - their mounts are ready and freshly shod. <br />Jacob, we grab and grapple with each other as you once did with Esau and the ‘Face of God’. <br /> <br />'The fate of the soldier caste is to fight Arjuna, for their death is pre-ordained. <br />On the battlefield at Kurukshetra, the false god Krishna once explained. <br /> <br />The Sikh Guru instructs his forces that when words do not avail <br />'Draw the sword and with flash of steel, thy enemy impale.' <br /> <br />'War is ordained by Allah so kill the unbelievers wherever you may find them.' <br />The Ayatollahs marshal their forces and in murderous lies they bind them. <br /> <br />Oh Ishmael, you champion archer, what is the value of all the arms and quarrels in your quiver? <br />When will you seek the true quarry whose blood doth eternal soul deliver? <br /> <br />And, though some Buddhists eschew violence – neither love will they show. <br />'He who loves 50 has just as many a woe.' <br /> <br />But the Baptist commands the soldier differently – 'You shall harm no one.' <br />And in many ways this law of peace is confirmed by God's only Son. <br /> <br />For how can an enemy be attacked and killed, <br />When we are all to love him with Holy Spirit filled? <br /> <br />How can enemy blood be spilled when Christ doth decree, <br />“Whatever you do, even unto the least, you do even unto me? ”<br /><br />Daniel Partlow<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/christ-s-unique-message-love-your-enemy-no-other-religion-says-this/
