'Good Things'  (March 31, 2012)
By Allan Thomasson

Good things happen to bad people.
Adam sinned, and now, all flesh
Has a very sinful nature.
God says, 'Start your life afresh!'

Our flesh, with its lusts, affections
For the world, which offers thus:
Sin, and pleasure. Satisfaction
Things which tempts, yes, all of us.

All those things the flesh seeks after.
Satisfaction's not attained.
Flesh has its own philosophy:
'Nothing ventured, nothing gained!.'

There's a way, seems right to man, but
Those ways are the ways of death.
Flesh contends for gratification,
And it will 'til its last breath.

We must bring it to subjection
To the will and ways of God.
Romans, chapter seven, tells us
Of this battle on earth's sod.

In Ephesians, two, eight through ten,
is the path which we must take.
John three-sixteen: our beginning.
That decision we must make

To obtain our final dwelling,
In new heaven and new earth.
For to reach the realm of heaven,
We must first have that new birth.

Seek the Lord, while He may be found.
Call upon Him, while He's near.
Good things to us then will happen,
God's word says to us so clear.