SHEEP & GOATS
When speaking to His own disciples, Jesus relayed to them this story;
When He returns all angels with Him, sitting in His heavenly glory.
With the nations all before Him, from one another He will divide;
As He the Shepard separates sheep to His right, with goats on His left side.
Then to those placed on His right, the King will begin to say’
‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, Receive a thing splendid without delay.’
‘Come, take your inheritance, this kingdom made just for you;
prepared since the worlds creation’, these people just didn’t have a clue.
‘For when I was hungry & without, you gave Me something to eat;
& when I was thirsty, from you a drink, made my tongues refreshing complete.
You saw Me as a stranger & lonely, yet you still invited Me in;
I was cold & nearly naked, you clothed Me as if I were kin.
If I was sick, you cared for Me, by My bed you would watch & sit;
In prison you came to visit Me, your love just never would quit’.
‘Lord’, the righteous will answer,’ when did we see You in this way?
Hungry, thirsty, or a stranger, and invite You in to stay?
When did You need clothes my Lord ? We never recognized You at all.
Were You one of those precious poor? But Your face we’d surely recall.
When did we see You sick or in prison, & visit You in Your grief?
So many people, Oh my Lord! Did we really bring some relief?’
The King will say, ’The truth is, all you did for the least of these;
You did for Me, they are My brothers, you helped My suffering to ease’.
Then the King will turn to the goats, will say to those on His left;
‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, of My blessing you are bereft.
I’m sending you into eternal fire, for the devil & his angels was prepared;
For when I was hungry or merely thirsty, nothing with Me would you have shared.
I was a stranger, instead of welcome, all I received, your door in My face;
I was in need of clothing, but from you, I received not even a trace.
I was sick & in prison, you never came, I just wasn’t worth your attention’;
‘Lord, when? Had we known it was You, we’d have had no apprehension’.
‘I tell you the truth, how you failed these’, Jesus will go on to say;
‘Toward Me you acted exactly the same, doing nothing for Me each day’.
Then they’ll go on to their punishment, an eternity of suffering their claim;
But it was, their very own selfishness, that brought on their heads this shame.
But the righteous on to eternal life, so incredible, scarce to believe;
Beloved of Jesus, with their best in mind, so good they could never conceive.
So get up you potato, from the ease of your couch, but if you refused to be budged;
Remember a hot future awaits you for sure, by your own response you’re to be judged.
Don’t worry about your place in His body,(it’s huge), various places in which you can fit;
He accepts all who come, just do it right now, to the Head of all things you’ll be knit.
It’s easy to help, Jesus gives us the chance, all around us a world in need;
To give us the strength, with us He is, as we obey from our fears we are freed.