God Doubts

God waits our choice of faith, not for our doubt,
He made us to believe, not to rebel,
great Lucifer, light-bearer put to rout,
rebelled, and dragged his angels down to hell.

The doubts waste time and weaken our free will,
the devil does believe, in fact he knows
that God is there and loves, but hates Him still
and now too late regrets the way he chose.

Choose to believe and make faith come alive,
it is our will we need to exercise,
faith without works, St. James wrote, can’t survive,
we need to run the race to win the prize.

Make my will strong, O Lord, to win that race,
to will to choose Your gifts of faith and grace.

                             -- by Pete Voelz       5/8/12