| After review, this is my only recourse: To repent from sins kept close without regret. My heart cannot rejoice, weighed heavy with remorse, For You have revealed my unfaithful relapse. I remind myself of days before my rebirth, Restrained by only any lacking resource. If time could rewind, I would flee from sin and never return, But habit repeats betrayal, despite my resolve. Choosing to redeem a straying sheep prone to regress, You endured reproach and did submit without reply-- A loving response toward one so bent on revenge. You don't repay me justly, as my deeds require. You renew my Spirit, You restore my soul. You replace my heart of stone. I refuse to repeat the same mistakes again. I will rely on You for grace. I am relying on Your grace. |
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Nothing will make us look as foolish in our own eyes as sin can. This poem came from a low time in my life when I was struggling with an addiction with which many guys struggle. The linguistic there came from these sage words of the apostle John, "Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent. . . ." (Revelation 2:5), and "This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. . . . And as we know and rely on the love God has for us." (1 John 4:10, 16.) |
