In youth, I fought with truth in hand,
And words that pounded like a drum,
I'd make them see, I'd make them understand,
And bring them all to kingdom come.
But in my zeal, I couldn't see,
That it was not my strength that mattered,
But the Lord's sovereignty, that held the key,
His power, that was not to be battered.
Like Lydia, the seller of purple,
Whose heart the Lord had opened wide,
She listened to the words of Paul,
And in the truth, she did abide.
We cannot beat the truth into minds,
We cannot scare or threaten souls,
Only the Spirit of the Lord,
Can make the truth take its tolls.
We must trust in the Lord's sovereignty,
And rest in His control,
Gently present the truth in love,
And wait for hearts to be made whole.
Like hungry chickens fed with care,
Needy sinners will come to partake,
In the satisfying food of the Gospel,
The Lord will lead them, for His sake.
About Brandan Kraft
Brandan Kraft is a computer programmer from the Missouri Ozarks who has been writing about the sovereign grace of God since 1997. He started with a website called bornagain.net, built it into PristineGrace.org, and has published over two hundred articles, nearly sixty songs, and a growing catalog of podcasts from his living room in Ashland, Kentucky. All without permission from anyone.
He holds no seminary degree, no denominational endorsement, and no theological credentials. He has been writing software for the same employer since 1998. He thinks in systems and believes that the sharpest doctrine should produce the widest arms.
His systematic theology, A Thought in the Mind of God, derives every position from one sentence and applies it across every domain - from ontology to eschatology, from the nature of the human mind to the nature of heaven and hell. It is available at pristinegrace.org/mind.
Brandan lives in Ashland, Kentucky with his wife Angie and their son Cole. He plays trombone in the Marshall University Tri-State Brass Band and changes a diaper twice a day on a cat named OJ who was once paralyzed and whom nobody else wanted.
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