Poem: Have You Considered My Servant?

Have You Considered My Servant?

by Russell Kelfer

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Oh, the love when God to Satan
Softly speaks your name,
“Have you considered this, My child,
So upright, without blame?

“Satan, look at his life
Try its every part.
You attack him, Satan
A man after My own heart!”

So Satan opens his attack
And takes the things away
The world counts most as meaningful,
And what a price you pay!

Like Job, you lose what meant so much.
You’ve nothing in that hour.
Like Joseph, to life’s prisons now
You fall, devoid of power.

And all the world about you scorns.
They do not understand,
The blows that fall still bear the marks
Of God’s transforming hand.

But, oh, my friend, when life is through
And at God’s throne we bow,
What joy there’ll be when Jesus puts
That crown upon your brow.

And looks with love into your eyes
And speaks as light breaks through:
“I needed one to die with Me
And so I’ve chosen you.

I called your name to Satan.
I wept ‘neath every blow;
But now you are My special joy
And oh, I love you so.”

It’s worth it, special called one,
For through it, you have grown
And soon you’ll know the heart of God
As few have ever known.

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