2 Corinthians 10:3-5 New English Translation

3 For though we live as human beings, we do not wage war according to human standards, 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons, but are made powerful by God for tearing down strongholds. We tear down arguments 5 and every arrogant obstacle that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to make it obey Christ.

 

Unlikely union

 

I thought the search was over but appears it just began

There is nothing now I understood that fits into the puzzle

Is it that some unsearchable surfaced for my own good

To with determined-exercise truth with more than muscle

 

Oh! How great the difference between tolerance and passive

They are not closely related and have little in common

The first is possibly based on love with patience and suffering

The second seems to build on shifting-swirling that summons

 

When compassionate and opposite are married in one union

As the lord joins them into one, only half in each one remains

And so in the span of time, it will show the effects of such a yoke

As the compassionate change into the other’s surviving stains

 

Selfish and unselfish in an embrace now walking hand in hand

Joined together in God’s love, but why did He not prevent it?

Brick by brick, the wall goes up to capture the quiet unselfish

Until it can only see the sky as the environment turns empty

 

I am still unselfish are the screams as its voice bounces off the walls

I want to give and I want to share, appears like paper thrown away

Till it gets caught in a fence and flutters through the wind of time

Useless and an eye-sore similarity with the song: “I had it my way”

 

Opposites marry each other and to it seems rather strange

Oh! You know they attract each other, but why should that be?

Possibly deep inside they are the same, but it never surfaced

As character trades go to the bone and that we all can see

 

Jan Wienen