Man vs. the Lord

Man vs. the Lord
A Psalm of Francis

1. Who is man to try to compete with the Lord? What is the height of his wisdom?
2. Man dare not look at the Sun, for he will go blind - But the Sun bows to the Lord.
3. The Lord makes the tide rise with the Moon like a magnet, but man cannot make them go down while at sea.
4. The breath of the Lord will knock anyone off balance, while the breath of man will not even fan you.
5. The stars hold their place in the sky, but the pebbles of man fall back to the earth.
6. Man reaches up, and his hands do not touch the sky. But the Lord marvels the sky with a bear hug.
7. Man’s skyscrapers reach into heaven, but they cannot bend down and touch their toes.
8. His social, economic, and financial systems remain out of balance, however the ecosystems of the Lord lack blemish.
9. His philosophy is complex and contradictory, while the Lord's is uncomprehensible yet harmonic
10. His mind conjures many concoctions, but they forever fall short at the feet of the Lord
11. His greatest homes hold only thousands, but the home of the Lord houses more than a billion
12. His food and drink is from the scraps of the Lord's table; his nourishment comes when the Lord says so - Any fasting of the Lord will decimate man.
13. His missiles come fast from a cannon, but the cannon in heaven doesn't have to be reloaded
14. His tanks give chase, but cannot swim; his boats engage in hot pursuit, but cannot walk; his aeroplanes ascend and descend, but this is not perpendicular; neither can it zigzag nor hop about the earth.
15. His Frankensteins speak words, but know not what they say; they cannot return dialogue without first consulting their instruction manuals.
16. Their skeletons are hard and brittle, but the bones of the Lord are hard and durable.
17. Their stature is fixed in its dimension, but that of the Lord forever regenerates itself.
18. The mother board of the best CPU is heavy, static and dumb; but the brain is light, malleable, and intelligent.
19. The spinal cord of man ascended not to heaven, for he has bent it in the direction of the east and the west.
20. His chakras from the base to the crown spin not; albeit those of the Lord are resistant to brakes.
21. Man attempts to massage embryonic stem cells, but the Lord ordained flesh.
22. The seminal fluid and placenta of the Lord provides speedier development for the child than the nutritional choices of man.
23. The Lord provide succor to come from the breast of a woman; that child is the Lord's!
24. The pipes of man corrode and burst under pressure, yet the veins of the Lord contain even blood.
25. Man employs fiber optics for his ends, but the endings of the nerves carry more light.
26. The eye of his camera doesn't see the dust coming, but the eye of God adjusts accordingly.
27. His ears hear not the sound of treason; his nose cannot smell the scent of danger.
28. Man marvels at infinity, and wonders what numeric precedes it; but the Lord knows that which follows it.
29. He cannot divide a thing by zero, but the Lord created the Earth from nothing.
30. He still hasn't conquered Leviathan; and the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot continually evade him.
31. He is a slave to gold and rubies, but it is the Lord only who manufactures these.
32. The beasts in the fields howl and give thanks to the Lord, but man's scream is that of arrogance and pride.
33. The aquatic of the sea breach the water's surface, and arise to give a dance of praise, but the dances of man are lewd unto himself.
34. The fowl of the air sing a song of joy to the Lord during their swoops, but man chants in a monotone manner with sword on the battlefield.
35. The trees of the forest whistle at the presence of the wind, but man whistles to his brethren in wait as the unsuspecting approach the snare.
36. The creatures of God's hand praise the Lord, and enjoy good health; but man be riddled with cancer, pneumonia, meningitis, osteoporosis, tooth decay, and others reserved for the disobedient.