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Why?
(Dedicated to my friend Bruce)
Why is the road so narrow?
Why is the way so rough?
Why is this new life so lonely?
Why is it often so tough?Why am I so outnumbered?
Why must I be on my guard?
Being a faithful good witness
is something I find very hard.
Why are the "saints" so worldly?
Why are the godly so few?
Why is the world so wicked?
And so many Christians seem lost too.
Why aren't more Christians thirsty
for God's unwavering truth?
Why do they seem to fall back into
the besetting sins of their youth?
Why do they think it so strange, so peculiar
that I care so much for the lost?
Why don't they act like their Master
who pursued sheep no matter the cost?
The "lost" glory in everything evil.
They continually boast of their sin.
Aren't I an unthankful ungrateful wretch
if I keep silent or just try to blend in?
I MUST boast of my loving Savior
for He bled and died for MY sin.
I MUST fight the good fight always,
I surely owe nothing less to Him.
I MUST not look at the others,
who waver and slumber and roam.
I MUST travel the hard and steep pathway.
for the blood on that road leads me home.
-RMK
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If these are your thoughts then REJOICE! because by God's amazing
grace, He has truly radically changed you from a child of darkness into a child
of LIGHT!
John 15:18 - "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause."
Matthew 5:11 - "Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."
Galatians 6:9 - "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."
1Corinthians 9:16 - "For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!"
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