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Not what goes in ...


Mark 7:21-22 

21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,  22 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

 

Not what goes in? It seems already there …

 

Bring ideas to the foreground … “original” from man‘s own mind?

Thoughts that have been before … tempting man the new to find.

 

Discovering what is already there … embalming one in satisfactory

to be different from the rest … to embrace other folk’s perplexity.

 

To feed to others what you feel … and call that true reality.

Is like serving man with orders … emphasizing banality?

 

Only the strong will survive … while Christ came to safe the weak?

Is that not the contradiction … that you feed others at your peak?

 

You found a crowd to follow … you will lead them by the nose

to a place founded by sewage … that they will absorb in overdose.

 

It is not what goes in that defiles a man … but what comes from the heart.

So why expose them to who you are … offer Jesus in His Righteous Path.

 

Jan Wienen

 

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