08.16.08

The Nothing

Posted in God Centered, Poetry, Spiritual Warfare at 4:25 pm by Administrator

Someone close to me was going through a hard time. The person kept saying to me that “I am nothing”. This crushed me, because I knew this was not true. This was a person who was sad and depressed. Yet it got me thinking about things. I wrote this poem about it.

THE NOTHING

The Nothing wanders the paths of life,
consuming the substance of all that we love.
Into its gaping maw, all sources of feeling go
Consuming the energy driving one and all

The nothing it lies
The nothing it deceives

The nothing just binds and torments
destroying that which is free.

Doubting one’s life, doubting one’s soul
The nothing grabs on and on doubts does grow
The nothing does linger, the nothing does lie
The nothing confuses with thoughts that die

The nothing leads us down, isolated back roads
Far from the paths of those walking by
The nothing tells people, hold on to their pain
for embarrassment it will bring
The nothing says no one will understand what we feel
The nothing discourages
The nothing says hide
The nothing whispers to us that
The nothing is inside.

Soon we believe it, the words we hold as true
The nothing resides within us
and there’s nothing we can do
Soon hope in us is fading
Soon light is cast out
Soon nothing does become us
and leads us to the dark night.

by Brett the Lofter — 5/5/08

The nothing is the essence of spiritual warfare. It is the loss of hope. We change that by embracing a relationship with God. This is one of the tactics of the father of lies. If you feel this way, seek out the Lord. Look in the Psalms for there are many there who have fought this battle too.

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