Frederick Kwesi Great Agboletey

A Promise Fulfilled

Like orphans left to wander streets without mercy

Man who wandered from loving bosom of Father

Wandered in strange places of great discomfort

Maltreated by malevolent entities who ought not to

Ought not to trifle with things dear to loving Father , yet

Like stubborn vagabonds fleeing from discipline that springs out of love

Love that in its strictness is protective

Amidst careful hedge of discipline that protects fragile humans from harm

Man held in loving care, guided through discipline

Misinterpreted discipline as undesired imposition ,and

In disobedience courted disaster –

Fleeing as they were from a home with caring, loving father

Into defiling places of prowling beasts

Where harm, wanton lust and destruction prevail

Tossed, shredded, mauled and teetered on serrating edges

Stringed as fodder for feeding frenzy of voracious beasts –

How grievous in proportions are these acts of disobedience,
Who are these who cause strife in holy, glorious presence

Of loving Father who sent forth salvations Lord and Saviour

To redeem his wayward children from strife?

Man made in His Creator’s image crying to His Father

An appeal ringing through ages of affliction with muffled intensity from abyss of despair

Ringing in Heaven’s silence of deep sorrow at virtue lost –

A cord of unforgotten love that binds

Forever knotting Children’s appeal to heeding ears of mighty glorious Father

How wrung, is agony of Creator’s great love for His own

Who sends relief,

In haste and with a certainty

Redemption’s response forthcoming,

That no other person formed in God’s image ought to bear afflictions’ curse

In God’s covenant fulfilled in beloved Son; man’s redeemer –

How precious worthy flow

A covenant wrought in innocent blood of Prince of Peace

Humble Son of Man with love in his heart

Descended from glorious throne at Father’s side

That once and for eternity fear’s deceptive strangle hold is unloosened

And eternal life given omniscient expression

For divine word has assumed life –

Word of faith

A promise fulfilled

That it be spoken and in glorifying Father

Obedience restores man through faith

Who have turned to Saviour of man

Holding unto hem of his garment

Basking in his loving care

Reaching and in being received healed-