You could have, you should have, but ...

“Are (you) confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness” – Romans 2:19

You could have
… been a guide
You should have
… been a light

Yet we fail
We fail to instruct another
and even ourselves
We are blinded
and the light
of Christ
we carry
in our hearts
is not always
bright.

We claim
oneness
completeness
with the Lord
but if we live
as creatures
of the sin
the Lord Jesus
delivered us from
our effort
to guide
and be a beacon
is futile.

Sin blinds us.
A conscious
every moment
kind of focus
on our Holy Father
is what we need.

The way is hard.
Satan’s tactics
dig deep
and deeper,
escalating
our feelings of self --
“It’s about me!”

You said
I said
He said
She said

When will we stop!
We are so pitiful

We have learned little
Or perhaps we have
learned much
but remember little

God is our maker
Our healer
Our protector
Our teacher
Our provider
Our Savior
Our constant Companion
Our forever King

Yet we act
like we are above Him
and we are not.

We are nothing -
nothing but senseless people
in a senseless world
going our own way

When will we see
When will we get past
the darkness
Why do we constantly let Satan
drag us down and keep us in
bondage to moral wrongs
and self-righteousness
and self-indignation
and self-pity
and jealousies
and selfish ambitions
and envy.

Where is our love
for each other
Where is the kindness
and the goodness
and the faithfulness
and the gentleness
and the self-control?

God our Father in heaven
is with us,
but are we with Him?

We could be
We should be ...

(c) February 7, 2015