ATTITUDES <br />SAINTS AND SINNERS <br />When some fellow yields to temptation and breaks a conventional law, <br />We look for no good in his make –up, but God! How we look for a flaw! <br />No one will ask, “How tempted? ” <br />Nor allow for the battle he’s fought, his name becomes food for the jackals; <br />For us who have never been caught. <br /> <br />“He has sinned! ” we shout from the house-tops, <br />We forget the good he has done, <br />We center on one lost battle, <br />And forget the times he has won. <br />“Come, gaze on the sinner! ”we thunder, <br />“And by his example be taught that his footsteps lead to destruction, <br />Cry we who have never been caught. <br /> <br />I’m a sinner, O Lord, and I know it, <br />I’m weak, I blunder, I fail. <br />I’m tossed on life’s stormy ocean, <br />Like ships embroiled in a gale. <br />I’m willing to trust in thy mercy; to keep thy commandments thou’st taught, <br />But deliver me, Lord, from the judgment of saints who have never been caught! <br /> <br />Kipin it Jesus’ <br />Changu<br /><br />Changu Chilwesa<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/saints-and-sinners-3/
