If I could tell the truth
What would I do
The pressure to suppress
Can come cascading down on you
For even daring to suggest
What should be obvious is true
Regardless of your point of view
To anyone
Under the sun
It's nothing new
It's tempting to pretend
I didn't know
To pivot or to bend
Or step aside to watch the show
When others stumble on the stone
Of the Almighty on the throne
And won't repent
From what is bent
When you and I
Leave them alone
But this is not
As it should be
For we were taught
Not to delight in misery
The King of kings
Has shown us who
And how we need to be:
Merciful,
Humble,
Full of love
And self control
Patient to a fault
Yet having hope
Found on the rock
When shaken to the core
Through tears of pain
We still remain
By grace and faith as heirs
Despite it all
Refusing to surrender to despair
So we must tell the truth
And face the pain
There is no other way
But there is something to explain
We all like sheep have gone astray
We each have sinned in different ways
But there is hope for there is grace
For everyone
There is a place
There is a way back home
And all who turn
To Him in faith
Will not remain alone
By Vic Lortz
7/2015
Proverbs 24:11-12
Ezekiel 33