A day of celebration in many countries!
It’s observance celebrated in different waysSome having fun dressing in costumes
spooky and scary apparel signifying ghosts and goblins, devils and demons.
But to some of us dealing with the disguise of demons plaguing our minds, it is anything but fun, difficult and painful.
We can relate to a man that had many mental demons of his own!
It was a mystical happening for
A man troubled with fears and
Doubts
Growing up in a medieval era
In a German village
Centuries ago
Under fear of a vengeful god who didn’t
Care
A strict mother burdened with children
A father bent on his
Son’s success, sending him to Erfurt
A school of learning
A ‘ tender conscious’ plagued his
Mind
Fear of a lost soul forgotten
He left his home
A bolt of lightning threatened
His life
On bended knees he knelt
Promising God he would become
A monk
Viewing his cry for help, a vow he
Could never break, he sold all his
Books
From all he had known removed
His father refusing to speak
The very next day
Committing his life in confession
And prayer
Through indulgences and fasting
Long pilgrimages
Blood stained feet
From stairway penance
Each step seeking mercy and grace that he
Would be saved
But no matter what he did it was
Never enough
Wrestling into the night
For the terror he bore
Sending him into a round
Of unending works to appease a
God he could not find
But a loving God was by his side
To reveal a holy truth
That would release him from
Bondage
To declare to all, we are saved
By grace and nothing else
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‘The Tower Experience’
Reading the scriptures looking for
Solace
On a fateful day in a
Monastery tower, Martin Luther
Opened a book to the words
‘The Just Shall Live By Faith!”
And he said –
“I felt like the portals of light
Streamed from the heavens and
I had entered through the
Gates of paradise”
A fascinating monk of
Erroneous beliefs declared to
The world these words
Releasing all from fear and
Perdition
Beginning “The Great Reformation”
On October 31, 2022 we celebrate
This monumental year over five
Hundred years ago
This is good news to all who
Struggle with a vengeful god
Those who have received a
‘Wounded conscious’ from
Unloving parents and homes
Unsafe
We are loved and saved by
A gracious God!
‘The just shall live by faith!”
*Book Of Romans Chapter 1 verse 17
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