The Drum
The drum is sounding in the night,
O listen to it beating,
a dark foreboding heart it throbs
Without a moment's ceasing.
When Eve chose dark instead of light
The first stroke hit the skin,
When Adam joined his choice with her,
The rhythm then began.
The choice was made, the beat began
To echo to the ending
The world was torn with sin of man
The dark beat never ceasing.
Abel's blood cries in the night,
Listen to it moaning,
Violence at another's hands
Without a word of warning.
Lust and pride and greed march on,
like some perverted treasure,.
And anger hurls them all along
Its army without measure.
But a whispered hope came with the fall
Of someone who would come
And heal the breach and make things whole
And still the beating drum.
He came as to us as babe in arms
crying in the night,
The answer to our spirit's woe
the one to make things right.
With his own heart's blood he made
The salve to make men whole,
To bind up all the wounds of sin
That terrify the soul.
The time of healing nears each day
that passes through our hand,
The drumbeat grows more frenzied now
As the clock runs out of sand.
And when the last grain passes through,
with maddening cacophony,
Abel's blood will moan no more,
And the drumbeat cease to be.
And when the last beat of that drum
echos in the night,
He will bring the morning sun
Renewed, and clear and bright.
2Co 12:9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Father, we know we do your will in praying together as you commanded us in your word. Though we are few, you hear us and move in POWER.
1Jo 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
1Jo 5:15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
May we please you with faith and confident trust in your word. We ask for rest and help. Comfort those in pain and trouble and need. You satisfy us and delight us with joy.
amen
Isa 26:9 My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.