The Way It Was And Is

I have dared to tweak the text of a giant. My morning reading included some thoughts from Charles H. Spurgeon, and I have taken some very slight liberties to present them to you in even more poetic form, as follows:

In the very beginning,
when this great universe
lay in the mind of God
like unborn forests
in the acorn-cup;
long before echoes
walked the solitudes;
before the mountains
were brought forth;
long ere the light
flashed through the sky,
God loved His chosen creatures.
Before there was creatureship!
When the ether was not yet
fanned by angel's wing;
when space itself
had no existence;
when there was nothing
save God alone;
even then,
in that loneliness of Deity,
in that deep, quiet profundity,
His love moved for His chosen,
and their names
were written on His heart;
even then
were they dear to His soul.

(after Charles H. Spurgeon)

I would like to add this, that you can choose to be among the chosen. You can ask God even now to show you the truth that will set you free, to give you the gift of faith, to write YOUR name on his heart! You will find it has been there, and will be there, forever...