What God Will Not Do.
by Fawehinmi Oluwatobi
To coerce, he would not;
To lie and himself deny
This not at all.
He does encourage to right
But for you the right he would
Not perform.
He gave His Son, but would not
Take Him for you.
He would inspire you to seek Him,
But you must do the seeking.
He gives us faith,
But it is ours to exercise.
He gives us a brain to perceive, to judge, to reason and to remember
But it is ours to maximise.
Hence say not that you forgot what ought to be recalled.
He gave us a will,
It is ours to exercise;
We choose good or evil,
To be foolish or to be wise.
Nothing is firstly automatic,
We choose to move or to remain static.
He gives us a garden,
It is ours to culture,
He gives us a new heart,
We must join Him that heart
To nurture.
He gives us seed,
He expects of us to breed.
He gave us a body not to idle
But to enable,
To strengthen by hard work,
It is up to us if it decays or gets blocked.
He gives us children,
He would not raise them for us.
Let not upon our minds prevail
The thought that God would raise our children for us.
He warns us ahead,
It is ours by His strength to heed.
He gives us wheat,
It is ours to make bread.
He gives us a land,
It is ours to care for and weed...
He gave man this earth
Not to destroy but to buoy,
To care for.
It is not that through the process
Of our doing, if we choose Him
That He leaves us.
No! That would be our undoing.
It is that His biddings are enablings,
He strengthens us as we choose Him.
God calls us with Him to unite
It is up to us to respond.
Transfer not your responsibility
To God,
He has His,
You have yours too.
God will never perform for you
That which you must do.