Awed By God

I
When trouble comes
Guilt is behind
With Regret Ready and able
(No time for pun on Cain or Abel)
But don't give up on God
Or even the vilest offender
As the hymnist sang, if s/he truly believes
Pardon from God one truly receives
If you must ---
Give up on the accusers, not on Jesus

II
I have been hurt by Christians
As badly as by heathen, Jew and Hindu
Yet a brother in Christ, or sister,
Can heal with human words too
As the accuser-humans hurt with theirs
And thievery of all sorts, to boot!
Don't shut your ears & heart to WORDS
GOD USES WORDS TO HEAL almost all
That other men and women kill

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Harry Horsman

Date: 9/27/2022 8:02:00 PM

Amen, Anil, Always believed in God and his son, yet with freedom of mind, i think the human race is veering off the promised path...Harry

Anil Deo
Date: 9/27/2022 8:15:00 PM

It's a blessing to have known Jesus through ones parents. I was 30 when I began to take Jesus seriously ("an acquired taste," for a Hindu nationalist). It's NATIOBALISM OF ANY KIND THAT IS CAUSINGVWARS, not God/Jesus. Study wars & it's civil& uncivil based on "ethnos" or ETHNOI, a la Russia & Ukraine.