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"Not Jacob"
by Jeph Johnson
If predestination
is providentially dictated,
God loves you
and it's me He's hated.
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Like Esau;
a see-saw,
back and forth.
He chose those
He knew would
choose Him,
of course.
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And He knew me not
though I loved Him.
I knew Him not;
I desired sin.
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Do you still find it odd
why I blame God
for His foreknowledge
of who He would prod
into Heaven?
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For the grace from which I fell
that's sending me to Hell
was not graciously
but gracefully compelled leaven.
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Why would He elect
then fail to protect
an irresistible decision
not to defect?
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Perhaps my freewill
is deprived by depravity still
or are the limits on atonement
finally filled?
