The New Life
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
This I say and testify,
That you must no longer walk;
Never trying to deny,
Futility of your talk.
The vanity of your mind,
Darkens your understanding;
In God you become blind,
Of what He is commanding.
For the hardness of your heart,
Becomes callous from the past;
You need to have a new start,
Enabled to ever last.
Avoid your impurity,
That is coming from your greed;
In Christ learn the security,
In asking God what you need.
Assuming that you have heard,
For the truth of what Christ taught;
Start studying of His Word,
For the answers that you sought.
Put off of your former life,
With deceitful desires;
Which were being filled with strife,
That the darkness requires.
Be renewed in the Spirit,
That a new self will create;
For the likeness you merit,
For avoiding an ill-fate.
Copyright © 2021 Richard Newton Sherrer
About this poem
Living the New Life Ephesians 4:17-24
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Written on August 27, 2021
Submitted by richards.77936 on August 26, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 797 |
Words | 147 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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