The Church today has lost her pace in today’s hectic earthly race. <br />To love God with all your mind has been lost in the crunch of time. <br />And replaced with fighting from within, laced with all shades of sin. <br />Nothing for eternity’s wrought when these foolish feuds are fought. <br /> <br />Satan begins to sow a weed or two and we forget we are born anew. <br />We’ve been Born Again from above and to be filled with God’s Love. <br />But soon His love slips away and then hurtful things we begin to say. <br />Paul admonished the Corinthian Church, but are we better or worse? <br /> <br />For our time is spent causing pain and this all without Eternal gain. <br />And soon we begin to lose our way and we even forget when to pray. <br />Then I neglect my quiet time where God deals with this heart of mine. <br />And I begin to focus on my need and soon forget about sowing seed. <br /> <br />We create a Church of carnal gifts in the midst of arguing and rifts. <br />We forget about Corinthians, gifts without love don’t mean a thing. <br />In the midst of our strife and fuss we forget Christ who died for us. <br />With His Blood He cleansed our sin, so that we could live for Him. <br /> <br />We create division and wonder why all our ministries are going awry. <br />We deal with things that are not right by acting out in hate and spite. <br />We begin to take on shades of night mixing darkness with His Light. <br />By acting out our fleshly desire, don’t we quench The Spirit’s Fire? <br /> <br />Even if our heart is sincere, how can we live without reverent fear? <br />The fear of God is truly wisdom, especially in light of The Kingdom. <br />God’s preparing us for Eternal Life, why be used as Satan’s device? <br />The time is now to make all right, by getting back to Salt and Light.<br /><br />Bob Gotti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/back-to-salt-and-light/
