You followed what you have been taught,
With faith aimed at your way of life;
For the love in what you have sought,
Patience through endurance of strife.
As well as the persecutions,
That happen with the suffering;
Able to find the solutions,
While Christ becomes your buffering.
The persecutions I endured,
Because the Lord has rescued me;
Of the temptations that have lured,
He opened my eyes as to see.
All who want to live godly lives,
Will be persecuted for Christ;
Because Satan ego survives,
When the desires are enticed.
Charlatans and evil people,
Will be going from bad to worse;
For nonbelief in the Gospel,
Shrouded in a darkened curse.
Imposters just love to deceive,
Deceiving and being deceived;
Because of evil they perceive,
As their goodness that they believed.
You must continue in the things,
As taught and confident about;
Because of the blessings it brings,
And erases all of your doubt.
You know of those who had taught you,
Learning what you firmly believe;
For you know what is taught is true,
That is helping you to achieve.
You have known how from infancy,
Since childhood of the Scriptures;
That insight has a tendency,
As knowledge and wisdom matures.
That is wisdom for salvation,
Having your faith in Jesus Christ;
Righteousness for a foundation,
For pleasures being sacrificed.
The one dedicated to God,
May be capable and complete;
To praise as you honor and laud,
Giving evilness a defeat.
Copyright © 2018 Richard Newton Sherrer