Missile Defense

Forget the fiery darts

Devil with a rocket launcher

parked outside my heart

Sending his barrage through my outer wall

Detonation on impact

Dirty bomb to stain my soul

And my defense inept and incomplete

I laid the Savior on the shelf, Him who died for me

And how I paid the price for my seditious act –

running round the rockets with a target on my back

God, I need Your shield

to obliterate – every evil missile that comes my way

Your throne, which I usurped, again to You I yield

In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.  [Eph 6:16]