Closed and Clueless

“Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know Him not see His days?” (Job 24:1).  “I will pour out My Spirit unto you; I will make known My words unto you… But ye have set at naught all My counsel, and would none of My reproof” (Proverbs 1:23-25).  “[Paul] expounded… persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.  And… they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers, saying… The heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them” (Acts 28:23-28).  

The times are not hidden from Almighty God;

He knows what the future will hold.

That many don’t see this is certainly odd,

In view of what prophets foretold.

The Lord has declared that He’ll make His words known

To all who will hear His reproof.

How is it that some yet refuse what He’s shown,

And many stand blindly aloof?

When Paul had expounded from morning till night,

Persuading those gathered to hear,

He magnified Jesus in prophecy’s light

With words unmistakably clear.

Some people believed, and yet others did not,

Refusing the truth for their lies.

When they were departing, Paul added this thought,

That they were thus closing their eyes. 

Isaiah forewarned of a people so blind

With eyes they would willfully close

Because they already had made up their mind,

And thereby the truth would oppose.

O Lord, we are seeing those Scriptures fulfilled

In those who are clueless today!

Refusing Your mercy, they walk on self-willed

As blindly they’re going astray.

Lord, send us with truth to the ears that will hear it,

To eyes that by grace will yet see,

So by the persuasion of Your Holy Spirit,

Your Gospel will then make them free.