Perception and ...
Hebrews 5:14 New English Translation (NET Bible)
14 But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.
Perception
Perception an unusual thing seldom understood by others
Here a word and there a thought ... helps us peek in that realm
Mostly then misunderstood ... left open to some guessing
When added to our personal feelings ... who is then at the helm?
We hang our hat in places ... where we’re seldom ready for
We jump into situations ... before we even learn to walk
Lessons then instructed ... are painful for sure
as we stumble and fall ... believing our own talk
We have power to be sons ... but that is not His authority
Confronting the ones in darkness ... is it not His to be done?
I know we are not helpless ... but if dead to ourselves
Then fear is mostly gone ... and love fulfills in the Son
Always the same issues ... seem to drive us day to day
We limit opportunity by the things we think we know
Lessons are hardly learned as we search in levels of faith
In part we think we understand self-developed anyhow
How can we grow ... when we think ourselves mature?
How can we expand ... if we search within our own limits?
Why do we carve in stone ... the things we “know” for sure?
How can we dream ... if we sleep just to forget this?
Where the flexibility ... when caught in one’s own web?
What is senility ... when all we do is forget?
What seems probability ... when you are all wet?
Is your search for sanity ... wasting your time in bed?
Jan Wienen