Web of Darkness
Why must we shun the sinner
In our own self righteousness?
If we’re called to light the world,
We should live up to the test.
Most Christians wouldn’t give
The prostitute the time of day.
We stumble o’er our sainthood
As we quickly walk away.
Like the Pharisees of old
We must observe the rules.
We mustn’t be seen hanging out
With publicans and fools.
What would the church world think
If they saw us with a gay?
Would Jesus stop to chat you think?
Or would He just walk away?
The drunk smells like a brewery.
The drug addict’s steps are slow.
But we’re too goody two shoed
To even manage a hello.
Our light’s beneath a bushel
Whenever they’re around.
After all, we’re churchy
And they are all hell bound!
What a deceitful web of darkness
Eveyone of us has spun.
No one can see the light we bear
No one can see The Son!
Granted, life is far less challenging
Beneath the bushel now.
Salt is safer in the shaker
Than sprinkled out somehow.
But salt and light in action
Is what Jesus would expect
It’s the only way to win a world
Which is dying of neglect.
While assimilation is a danger
Isolation is much worst.
Disconnected Christianity
Will never quench a thirst.
Choirs and committees are a must...
Church work must be engaged.
But outside of that church door
Is where salvation should be staged.
Witness to the wayward people!
Go out and win the world!
Tear down that web of darkness
So that light may be unfurled!
Doris Jacobs-Covington
October 8, 2012
~~Dedicated to Gerald and Judy~~
Matthew 5: 13-16
Ye are the light of the world. A city
that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Neither do men light a candle, and put it
under a bushel, but on a candlestick;
and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Let your light so shine before men
, that they may see your good works,
and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt
have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out,
and to be trodden under foot of men.