Very Self

1 Peter 1:22-25         English Standard Version

22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; 24 for

“All flesh is like grass
    and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
    and the flower falls,
25 but the word of the Lord remains forever.”

And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

 

Very self

I’m born again! 

 

What does that mean? May it be completed in Spirit?

A new heart, a new life. Is that what it truly means?

A new master in my life as my will should be obedient

So all I am is made anew, but my soul, what will it be?

 

A mind that needs to become like the mind of Christ

This takes time, I know, for it’s totally polluted

It only interprets what it knows or what it perceives

It is not dependable, and that’s is well concluded

 

The trouble is what it lets in and seemingly keeps out

Is that a matter of the will or what it wants to understand?

No mind should be misled by what is called emotion

Misinterpretation of the past rests in what’s now in hand

 

One’s will is one’s very self and controls all other organs

And whosoever commands his will owns that man in full

If it resists the will of God, and it is as a formidable enemy,

As such, you will ever find for there is where death rules

 

The most vital part of the soul for sure must be the will

For here is where decisions of life and death are made

The mind can be wrong at times, and emotions can implode

But the intention is irreversible after the actions that it takes

 

Serious consequences are involved, either right or wrong

Lasting effects will follow in directions not foreknown

But we will be held responsible for that’s well understood

Excuses are not excepted where ignorance is unknown

 

Jan Wienen

This poem is about: 
Me
My community

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