The Backslider
The Backslider
By: Tom Wright
2/17/99
Do you follow a path
encumbered with weeds?
have they seemingly appeared
from your planted seeds?
Are the tracks you once followed
now faint and dim?
Becoming tracks of the world
and no longer of Him?
Does some inner longing
tell you "reset your course"?
Have you so soon forgotten
your power source?
Has your once robust witness
been choked out by tares?
Have you become complacent
and now caught in Satan's snares?
Though having strayed from the path
there is balm for your soul.
Christ, can clean and reenter
making you, once again, whole.
Following tracks of the world
has a significant cost.
Foremost, when your path ends
you'll be eternally lost.
Travel not the broad path
make your course the narrower way.
The path leading through the straight gate
to God, and Heaven someday.
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