Putrid Pride Perverts Good Character!

Are You Like The Pharisees Who Spoke And Fasted With Pride 

Or

Are You Like Christ Jesus Who Spoke Peace 

And 

Ate His Food With Humility

Willingly Choosing To Be With The Sinners Who Saw 

And 

Expressed Their Personal Need Of 

Their Personal Savior!?! 

Lest We Forget

The Lord Asks Us To Humble Ourselves 

Under His Mighty Hand 

And

In His Own Time He Will Lift Us Up! 

Pride ... Putrid Pride ...  Perverts Good Character

And 

We Ought To Constantly Remember That 

It Was Putrid Pride That 

Caused Satan's Fall From Saving Grace! 

We Should Never Forget That It Is False Pride That 

Causes Us To Elevate Our Sinful Self 

Before We Spectacularly Fall 

And 

Our Shame Is Exposed! 

We Have Nothing About Which To Practice Pride 

Save Jesus Christ The Lord ... Our Lord

So Let Us Be Wise And Consider, Understand

And 

Remember That 

The Only Thing That We Take From This World 

Is 

Our Name ... Our Character 

Good, Bad, Ugly Or Indifferent! 

Beloved, 

The Only Character That Will Enter Heaven 

Is 

The One That Is Totally Like Christ's 

So, Please, I Beseech Us All

By The Grace Of God 

And 

With An Obedient, Willing Spirit

Get Rid Of The Unholy Habits 

And 

Ugly, Offensive, Prideful Attitudes: 

Jesus Christ Cleans And Saves! 

Powerfully Pursue Peace!

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: Good Evil Good

One day I met Mr. Evil
His last name was So-Good
He was a stunning bold sinner
And before Me he proudly stood!

Then I came across the Saintly Good Evil
Loving, Faithful, and Kind
He was bruised and battered
But he did not repine!

Some people see these men as interchangeable
Some people thought them twins
But those who listened to The Master
Knew them to be stone cold enemies
Never, Ever friends!

They both had similar missions:

"Go ye into The World!

Take up a Position!

Let Your Voice be Heard!

Create Division! Division!"

Problems very soon surfaced -
Someone had flipped The Script
These gentlemen's Birth Certificates were altered
Information checked out Absurdly Sick!
Messages didn't fit the lip!

Good Good had become Good Evil!
Evil Evil had become Evil Good!
The Masterful Deception was Total
And The People faced The Flood 
Of Right Wrongs
Wrong Rights
Light Darks
Dark Lights
Bitterly Sweet
Sweetly Bitter
Sinful Saints and
Saintly Sins
Both Day and Night
With Glitter Glitter!

Life became Dire
Dire unto The Fire
Which could would turn This Old World
Into a veritable Funeral Pyre!

But ... despite The Deception
In a small glade
Lived Gaude S. Good
Whose son was Savior who
By The Crosswise Way
He always stood
Preaching and teaching
Giving of himself
Warning, ever warning to
Don't trust The Elf
Whose tongue was lizard
Whose words were forked
Who thrived on Deception
Desire and Things Dark!

Gaude S. Good, Jr. - Savior baptized
Outed The Devil
Exposing The Lies
And giving His People
Hope Bona Fides
To hold
To help
To heed
To heal
To feed and to succor
To Salvation Lead
Despite Deadly Deeds
Starving Souls He Feeds!

He Feels for His Fellows
He Prays for their Souls
His Inward Light Burning
His Eyes as Flame Glows
His Passion over-flowing
His Heart is on Show
He will not a Soul surrender!
No! No! No!

All that His Father gave Him
All unto Him go
Full of contrition
Of Sin do repent
He draws and he Shepherds them
Into The Safe Fold
None will be cast out
Into The Night Cold!

Blessed are The Sheep
Savior holds Dear
For Now and Forever
They Abide in His Care
Until The Finale
When All will be Revealed
When The Saints of The Ages
Will before God The Father 
In Holy Worship kneel!

Put a Pin in a Ball Balloon

and

All The Air Flows Out!

Put a Jesus Pin in Your Sin

and

The Devil Flees as He Cries Out!