Your mind is ready for action,
Be serious and set your hope;
Grace shines upon your infraction,
That has made Jesus Christ to cope.
Never try in being conformed,
To desires of ignorance;
Rather you need to be reformed,
By building up your tolerance.
As the One who called you holy,
Be holy in all your conduct;
The One that you worship only,
A bond that has never destruct.
Be holy for Christ is holy,
Address the Father as the One;
While giving judgment solely,
Your advocate will be His Son.
You must conduct yourself in fear,
Throughout the time of exile;
Knowing that God is always near,
Keep a heavenly lifestyle.
For you know that you were redeemed,
From your empty style of life;
About things that you only dreamed,
Without enduring all the strife.
Inheriting from your fathers,
Not perishable things like gold;
Silver jewelry of your mothers,
The salvation Scriptures have told.
But with the precious blood of Christ,
As a lamb without a blemish;
Upon a cross was sacrificed,
For making any sin vanish.
Foreknown before the foundation,
Before the world being revealed;
For the sake of your salvation,
The Book of Life will be unsealed.
Through Him are believers in God,
Gave glory and raised from the dead;
Faith and hope to honor and laud,
For everlasting life instead.
Copyright © 2018 Richard Newton Sherrer