Sin Is Fun . . . Until After

Sin is fun until after she’s done.
Then you wish she had never begun.1
For her first smell of sensuous sweet
turns poison, choking with guilt replete.2
Only a waft of the Gospel’s air
makes consciences clean, and souls repairs.3
Come Holy Spirit; cleanse us anew
that we might walk again close to You.4
Notes
1There is a way that seems right to a [...]

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Sin’s Fool Price

A penny of pleasure buys a dollar of pain.
Yet, rarely one sees it as an unfair trade.
For in the hot moment of vivacious passion,
man quickly loses all reasonable fashion.
But, iniquity’s ecstasy melts to thin air,
And sin’s penny pincher becomes guilt’s millionaire.
For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too [...]

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A Thanksgiving Day Prayer

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. (Colossians 3:17 ESV)
Lord, your providence we do not deserve:
The rain and the sun and the fruit-filled earth.
And your manifold grace to our account,
That triumphs over death and sin surmounts.
So this [...]

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Sin’s Two Hands

While one strokes our dark passions sweetly,
The other digs our grave discretely.

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