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Possible and reason


Isaiah 1:18 

18 Come, let’s consider your options,” says the Lord.
“Though your sins have stained you like the color red,
you can become white like snow;
though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet,
you can become white like wool.

 

Possible

 

Reasoning in one heart … contemplating change.

Will it work? Can it be … is it in my range?

 

Dreaming about things long lost … hoping in reverse.

Of a trend labeled you … ready for a hearse.

 

Hopeless hope! Can it be? … Too long for without trust

Things that help your helplessness ... will guide you with disgust.

 

Faithlessness a common face ... it smiles from every side.

It sparkles like a diamond … as it melts away like ice.

 

It disguises under a cloak of pride and amazes friend and foe.

It rules the world from shadows past ... surviving as it goes.

 

But one day the Lord will come and everything will burn

except the Love that He bestows and offers when you turn.

 

Jan Wienen

 

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