From Beginning to End
Good works to walk in
is what I seek to find.
Invisible gifts from God,
the creator of them all.
From before the beginning of time,
I can’t fathom the thought.
The foundations He laid down
My life is built upon.
That which is deeply worked in,
is for me to work out.
Working the will of Him,
who knew me in the womb.
To be the man He made me to be,
is my ultimate earthly desire.
Serving at full capacity,
with a heart fully on fire.
I see a faint image
of what I’m to be.
A revelation to the question
burning inside of me.
The nature of this wanting
comes from deep within.
The answer is in the living,
from beginning to end.
The collection turns from questioning to calling. Having asked what a man is worth, Scott now turns toward what a man is made for — the good works prepared before time, the vocation worked deeply in and requiring to be worked out, the desire to be fully what God made him to be. This is the collection’s most purposeful poem, the one where searching gives way to direction and where the faint image of what Scott is becoming begins to emerge.
I wrote this poem as a man who believes he was made for something specific and is still in the process of discovering what that is. The image I see of what I am to be is genuinely faint — I do not have a complete picture. What I have is a direction and a desire and the conviction that the wanting itself is God-given. The answer is in the living is the most practical line I have written in this collection. All the theology, all the questioning, all the searching — it resolves into this: live the life in front of you faithfully and the answer will emerge. I believe that.