2 Timothy 2:15           New English Translation

15 Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.

 

Habits

 

Unconsciously developing many when you synchronize.

To walk hand in hand with strange habits, you form

It should not surprise us that this shoe fits most of us

And talking about habits, the more we’re fully grown

 

Looking straight forward or staring into the ground

While we’re talking slowly, searching for some words

Our mind goes in slow motion, and it quit exercising long ago

As we're mentally developing with muscles like a cord

 

A believer does not perceive that passivity is the cause

These symptoms, my dear friend, are a natural weakness

Maybe the age or diet somewhere we’ll find the cause

And these are not excuses convinced by self in meekness

 

People mostly deceived are the ones with good intentions

Honesty is no condition not to be deceived

Knowledge makes the difference if it is based on wisdom

For intelligence very often feed a selfish breed

 

Neglect of biblical teaching and failing to watch and pray

Even when trusting in pure motives to keep from deception

The very element of self-confidence betrays the stay

That at that moment, you are in seems a moving contraption

 

To be humble enough to acknowledge all possibilities around

Maybe  deceitful and keeps from observing or clearly seeing

The dangers of false security are always at the door

If too many idealistic teachings you absorb to fill your being

 

Jan Wienen