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Let all people be quick to hear,
Slow to anger and slow to speak;
For learning in how to revere,
What they should do and where to seek.
For anger makes not righteousness,
Because anger will bring on wrath;
Only producing carelessness,
By allowing to cross their path.
Put away all the filthiness,
Receiving the implanted Word;
Stopping the rampant wickedness,
To save your soul from the absurd.
So be doers not just hearers,
Because hearers only deceive;
Christ like when looking in mirrors,
Adhering to what you believe.
Anyone who is a hearer,
Looks intently at his true face;
Rather by being a doer,
God is willing to shine His grace.
He sees himself and goes away,
And forgetting what he looks like;
Finding himself to go astray,
God would tell him to take a hike.
But the one who looks to the Law,
Will see the Law of liberty;
And will be avoiding a flaw,
Halting spiritual poverty.
Being a hearer will forget,
As a doer will act the need;
Later the hearer will regret,
While the doer will succeed.
The tongue is deceiving the heart,
And their religion is in vain;
Without a bridle to impart,
That causes others to have pain.
Pure religion undefiled,
God visits orphans and widows;
Leaving unstained of a child,
For anybody who follows.
Copyright ©2022 Richard Newton Sherrer
Doing by Hearing
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