Faith by Hearing

You say that we can not believe,
If your eyes and ears not receive;
And so your faith can not grow,
As you live such a dreadful woe.

Seeing is believing for as proof,
So to see on TV it is not a spoof;
Hearing people stress their views,
Sounding as the truth in the news.

In the newspaper and the Internet,
Reading putting you in a mindset;
Surely having no reason to distrust,
Since reporters seem fair and just.

But when it is the Bible you depart,
Since you can not take it to heart;
For the facts are not in your sight,
As old stories do not shed light.

But faith does not come by seeing,
Rather hearing the Word conveying;
The truth that brings us a new hope,
That will enlighten in a new scope.

Richard Newton Sherrer

Copyright ©2006 Richard Newton Sherrer

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