Daily Ponderings: Malachi 4:1-2

"Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire," says the LORD Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them. But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings." ~ Malachi 4:1-2

Stubble:  the basal part of herbaceous plants remaining attached to the soil after harvest.

Stubble

by Helen Lewis

Once upon a life

A plant so full of potential

Now decapitated by the enemy

You have lost all your senses

Ruin has become your path

You have lost control of what you'd become

Your ability to drink life is lost

The light had ceased to be a gift of energy

You're a standing corpse

Constantly deteriorating

Moisture from the rain and dew

Now support those that seek your destruction

Life has left you

Your roots now refuse to anchor

And leaves withdraw from light and warmth

Your choice and influence are no more

With winter and rain...

Your chance is decay

With summer and heat

Your chance is fire and destruction

Soon no more

Just like him who is arrogant and an evildoer

Soon its ashes trampled by the righteous

And become dust under his feet

Made to be a hand of your maker

To give shelter and love

Now you're ashes - trampled,

Blown away and forgotten

I call on the Lord: awake my soul

Lest I'll be harvested by the enemy

Fill me with living water

And open my heart to the light that gives life.
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