"Reform Movement Gone Wrong" [Module #317] (Matt. 23:14)
Reform, alas, goes off the rails –
It calcifies, new growth entails
Rebirth of those who come along –
Reformers’ kids who “just belong”.So in this case, one-fifty years
Since reform time – they’d seen quite clear
That faith must migrate past the door
Of Temple – or what’s this all for?But time and generations took
Their toll – recorded in this book
Are samples of such thought, now brought
To silliness, once nobly taught.New forms of old hypocrisy
(While doing wrong one clearly sees,
It won’t go down with those who know,
So best put on a pious show).Don’t waste resource on tasks not yours;
On Kingdom-layer skip those allures
Of life beneath on base-world plate;
Receive from Father – resource take –Which He has given to do your task,
Resource for which each one must ask;
And if it cannot be passed down,
Ask what must change, be learned, or found.So, in my case, I had to grow –
So many parts I came to know;
With each, new faith welled up in me,
That I might His resources see.Lord, tasks which You’ve laid out for me,
Resourced in skills and teamwork, see
Completion as I yield my life
To You, as husband, with my wife.We each come from society,
And join the Kingdom-crowd with Thee;
We interact with body parts;
In You joint-life together starts.Lord, now things start to fall in place –
My writing, photos, are one case –
Prepared, and now out-flowing, while
These days tick on – and mile by mile –Our project grows in circumstance,
Of life emerging from the dance
Of life in project’s darker days,
As lights come on, and fear’s allayed.Lord, now as we proceed from here,
Release our souls from foolish fear;
Assure us, guide us, lead us to
The ways and means which work in You.Thanks Lord for this.
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