Hosea 10:12   New English Translation

12 Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love.

Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves,

for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.

Necessity

I have to live in this body. Is there some other way to survive?

Why? I don’t really quite understand how physical I should be.

For the Spirit to reside here I can vaguely grasp and understand,

for spirits don’t need the physical, for, without it, they are free.

Evil thrives on the material and makes possessions priceless.

For the ones who love the world, and want to be soaking in it.

If the dead spirit within a man reaches its only ultimate goal

 If you survive temporally, you’ll be where only God can fix this.

Alive in spirit, but trapped in a body, when glorified to be forever free.

There to be forever just like Jesus, and surely there you'll be free indeed.

Jan Wienen