God's Dare

If each commandment is a kind of dare,
not what we shouldn’t do, but what we should,
commanding us to love, to help, to care,
then they show how God dares us to be good.

The first three tell the ways God should be treated,
He’s God alone, respect His Name and day,
then neighbor loved, the enemy defeated,
not hurt, but help all we meet on our way.

With power to disobey, He made us free,
our freedom lets us choose to love or sin,
and by our deeds to do our destiny,
we must have faith our works will heaven win.

O Lord, my life and world are really Yours,
let me choose love so long Your dare endures.

                       by Pete Voelz     3/11/14