The Allure of the More Beautiful Song

May you triumph

Over temptation

Not in the manner

Of Odysseus who shackled

Himself to the ship mast

Forbidding his sailors to release

Him no matter how alluring the

Sirens’ songs.

You are made more

To be like Jason,

Who brought on board

The world’s best musician.

When the Sirens’ began

Singing their tempting songs,

Orpheus played his lyre

Much more beautifully

So Jason and his sailors

Cared not for the lesser songs

Of the deceptive, murderous Sirens.

“Oh the depths of the riches

Of wisdom and knowledge of God!” (Rom. 11:33, ESV)

Oh how much more glorious

Is your Messiah’s song—

Be enamored today by the sound of the Gospel

And sail by every temptation.