<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367694" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Making of a Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When God made Adam long ago, He fashioned him supreme, <br>A billion thoughts that he might know his life was not a dream...<br>Thus no excuses could release that Man that God had made, <br>If by his sins he lost God's peace and through guilt was dismayed...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When God made Adam long ago, the angels gave God praise, <br>They did not treat Man as a foe, so new to Godly ways...<br>Yet Lucifer was mortified when Eve was introduced, <br>As God created from Man's side this female not refused...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When God made Adam long ago and Eve, his helpmate wife, <br>In whom new children were to grow when they made love and life, <br>Then Satan knew they would not die if children must exist...<br>And so he tricked them with a lie that they did not resist...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When God made Adam long ago, He knew him through and through, <br>He also let grace overflow, despite each sinful view...<br>Thus from God's Eden Man was sent and Adam's sons knew shame, <br>As through each day of sin they went, with each to bear the blame...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When God made Adam long ago, in time to see him fall, <br>He chose to send His Son below, a sacrifice for all...<br>God filled the Scriptures with this news, as prophets voiced His plans<br>Worldwide to Gentiles and to Jews dispersed across the lands...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When God made Adam long ago, He paused to count the cost! <br>For sin would wander to and fro and Hell would claim the lost! <br>Lord Jesus died, passed by Death's Door, with courage unsurpassed! <br>The making of a man, for sure... Our Saviour, first to last...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denis+Martindale">Denis Martindale</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367694" data-title="The Making of a Man de Denis Martindale" data-description="When God made Adam long ago, He fashioned him supreme, A billion thoughts that he might know his life was not a dream... Thus no excuses could release that Man that God had made, If by his sins he lost God's peace and through guilt was dismayed...."></div> </div> </div>

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