Friend I welcome your thoughts even if you disagree with what I say, <br />For it may give me the opportunity to send a thought or two your way. <br /> <br />Please bear with me if I should stumble on a word or two of my own, <br />The only words that really matter have been spoken from God's throne. <br /> <br />You may thrive on man's opinion while avoiding the Word of the Lord, <br />I'll stay in God's Eternal Word that's sharper than a two edged sword. <br /> <br />God's Word penetrates the soul and spirit, the heart of all mankind, <br />And He changes lives forever, giving sight to the spiritually blind. <br /> <br />Man's wisdom is simply based in pride and leads to man's exaltation, <br />While God's wisdom from above leads us to God's Eternal Salvation. <br /> <br />Once a worldly philosopher had decried that the living God was dead, <br />He may have thought he was wise, but God lives and he died instead. <br /> <br />This fool found out God was indeed alive and he had to face His Rod, <br />And it is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. <br /> <br />But my friend the same hands that deal with sin with sobering wrath, <br />You will find were open to the whole world on Calvary's bloody path. <br /> <br />In Isaiah it says “Come now, let us reason together, ” says the LORD. <br />My friend just as in Isaiah's day today the same message is implored. <br /> <br />And it doesn't matter what you think or say you haven't been ignored, <br />Humble yourself like Isaiah did for Christ is knocking on your door. <br /> <br />(Copyright © 05/2003)<br /><br />Bob Gotti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-welcome-your-thoughts/