Without Faith, You cannot Please God.

Here is a poem that reflects on the vital necessity of faith, anchored in the scripture from Hebrews.

The Pleasing Aroma

Without it, Lord, my best deeds are but dust, A tower of achievements,doomed to fall and rust. A noisy gong,a clanging, hollow sound, On shifting sand,a foundation unsound.

But "without faith it is impossible to please God," So says the word Your truth has firmly shod. This is the lens through which You see the soul, The single currency that makes the broken whole.

Let my every breath be an act of trust, A surrender of my logic to Your promise just. When fear would have me build a case so clear, Let me choose belief,and make my footing here.

For faith is the hand that reaches through the veil, That trusts the anchor when the senses fail. It pleases You not because it has the sight, But because it holds Your hand in the deepest night.

Pleasing You is not in what my eyes can see, But in the whispered,"Lord, I trust in Thee." When the offering seems small,the future dim, My faith,a fragile flame, is pleasing unto Him.

So take my doubt, my need to understand, And graft me to the Vine,secure by Your hand. Let my life be a pleasing sacrifice,ablaze, Not built on my own sight,but on Your faithful ways.