God's Pull

The world pulls first, and then God pulls His way,
we're born with such self-centered wants and needs,
we're led to stumble by our feet of clay,
we need a church to show the way God leads.

If parents, teachers, heroes don’t much care,
we struggle with our body's selfish ways,
we need their help to save us from despair,
and cut us through the weak world's motley haze.

The pull of God is harder to discern,
we know God always gives sufficient grace,
the grace the worthless world tempts us to spurn,
so we lose this divine and human race.

Make me, O God, strong in my faith to see
that where You pull is always best for me.

                            by Pete Voelz