What I said no to
What I said no to
by Joel Howard
God when I said yes to You
Here’s what I said no to:
To people’s faces
To all their gazes
I fled rat races
To making money
As much as would
Come to me
Jesus, when trials beset
I chose You and yet
Today I remember
All I left there:
Forsook the taste of
What others crave
The taste of “wine”
The friends of mine
Camped out instead
In lands I dread
Sweat on my brow
Dirt on my head
I stayed in desert rooms
And camped out in tombs
Where devils had
Their best chance
To cut me out
Of the hands of God
But His wounds let
Me hide within
Deeper than the scars of most
No matter what alarms the host
What beauty lies
In Daddy’s eyes
Sustains me now again
When I remember where I would’ve been
I glance back but never will return to
All that I said no to!