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1 Peter 2:1 

So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

 

 

We have the right?

 

An evil regime … we’ll bring it down

How many will be left before we’re through?

Will we be one of them or will God frown?

Will He tolerate hypocrisy to spread like the flu?

 

It is easy to judge others and remove all mirrors

So we won’t have to face the distortions of our heart

To wake up one day to be presented with horror

When all comes to light in our time to depart

 

No man falls by self … not even an Iraqi

No man dies alone without sharing who he is

The iniquity from all and all it’s yucky

Will appear before the Throne in the accuser’s fist

 

Makes you wonder as only One is justified

Makes you marvel at unknown Holiness

Where love is the issue even for an enemy’s life

How far have we come in our chosen emptiness?

 

Do we have the right to analyze all wrong?

To judge someone else how it should be done

After all our own life seems filled with enough dung

That corrupts our environment all the day long

 

Jan Wienen

 

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