my favorite poem

I would now like to share with you probably my all time favorite poem called What Christ Said by George Macdonald. I had to write it again for school today and it's amazing.

I said, "Let me walk in the fields.
He said, "No; walk in the town."
I said, "There are no flowers there.
He said, "No flowers but a crown."

I said, "But the skies are black,
There is nothing but noise and din."
And He wept as He sent me back;
"There is more," He said. "There is sin."

I said, "But the air is thick,
And fogs are veiling the sun."
He answered, "Yet souls are sick,
And souls in the dark undone."

I said, "I shall miss the light,
And friends will miss me, they say."
He answered, "Choose tonight
If I am to miss you, or they."

I pleaded for time to be given.
He said, "Is it hard to decide?
It will not seem hard in Heaven
To have followed the steps of your Guide."

I cast one look at the fields,
Then set my face to the town.
He said, "My child, do you yield?
Will you leave the flowers for a crown?"

Then into His hand went mine;
And into my heart came He;
And I walked in a light divine,
The path I had feared to see.


I like this poem because it has perfect rhyme keeping the idea and has good meter not perfect but similar enough not to throw you off. The poem talks about Jesus calling us to him and our decision. Now every person when he decides to become not only a christian but a christfollower has to make this choice. Are you going to abandon God and leave his path and plan or are you going to abandon your path and plan for his. This is an incredibly hard descision to make and for most it is not a one time thing you did it now it's done but a continual day by day descision. To follow God into the town verses staying in the field. Now an important thing that the peom alludes to is Jesus's cruxification. When it says,

I said, "Let me walk in the fields.
He said, "No; walk in the town."
I said, "There are no flowers there.
He said, "No flowers but a crown."

I said, "But the skies are black,
There is nothing but noise and din."
And He wept as He sent me back;
"There is more," He said. "There is sin."

It points out that though the field may be funner and nicer it is not the right course. And that the easier course is to stay in the field and on the broad road that leads to destruction but narrorw is the path and way that leads to salavation. It's going to harder your going to mocked and persescuated. But it is for the right cause and when it's all over we can go before God at the gates of Heaven and with out falsehood proclaim that we lived to accomplish his will not ours. We must all be prepared to make this descision every day when the trials come.