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A beauty from without
For all to behold its
False purity
Was what you said
Of a Pharisee
But inward their hearts were
Filled with
Uncleanliness
Rotting flesh
Decomposing
Dry bones
Death.
Hypocrisy is easy to deny
2,000 years from the comparison
Of self-righteous men
Who knew only of works
And nothing of love.
But in between the leather binding
Written on the diaphanous tissue
Are your crushing words
Bold print in red
That point the condemning finger
Used to paint a biblical picture of
A modern day me....
The Pharisee in me.
Can there be hope
For a heart
As muddled and murky as mine?

But with your holy ingression
You light a match
Set a flame to dying embers of my soul
With your Spirit's light
Dust the cobwebs and banish the soot
Resurrect the dry bones to new life
And abide.
Sanctified by Your touch
This sepulchre is a testimony of the grace.
Made beautiful by You
And holy in your eyes
A beam of hope goes forth from the sepulchre
The righteousness is now not mine
But a cleansing of Your blood. [comments] => 8 [counter] => 288 [topic] => 62 [informant] => faith_my_eyes [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 43 [ratings] => 9 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => spiritual )

Sepulchre

Contributed by faith_my_eyes on Sunday, 6th February 2005 @ 12:54:32 AM in AEST
Topic: spiritual

A whitewashed sepulchre
A beauty from without
For all to behold its
False purity
Was what you said
Of a Pharisee
But inward their hearts were
Filled with
Uncleanliness
Rotting flesh
Decomposing
Dry bones
Death.
Hypocrisy is easy to deny
2,000 years from the comparison
Of self-righteous men
Who knew only of works
And nothing of love.
But in between the leather binding
Written on the diaphanous tissue
Are your crushing words
Bold print in red
That point the condemning finger
Used to paint a biblical picture of
A modern day me....
The Pharisee in me.
Can there be hope
For a heart
As muddled and murky as mine?

But with your holy ingression
You light a match
Set a flame to dying embers of my soul
With your Spirit's light
Dust the cobwebs and banish the soot
Resurrect the dry bones to new life
And abide.
Sanctified by Your touch
This sepulchre is a testimony of the grace.
Made beautiful by You
And holy in your eyes
A beam of hope goes forth from the sepulchre
The righteousness is now not mine
But a cleansing of Your blood.

Copyright © faith_my_eyes ... [ 2005-02-06 00:54:32]
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Re: Sepulchre (User Rating: 1 )
by UnlovedChild on Sunday, 6th February 2005 @ 01:49:24 AM AEST
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Wow Em! This was an excellent write. I've never read where you got your inspiration from, but I can see you turned your inspiration into a lovely, emotional poem!

Re: Sepulchre (User Rating: 1 )
by blowfish_jane on Sunday, 6th February 2005 @ 05:54:26 AM AEST
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Em that was really good, you have written this so well. I liked the whole concept you did. This is quiet emotional but I love this.

Jane x

Re: Sepulchre (User Rating: 1 )
by Stitch on Sunday, 6th February 2005 @ 01:50:32 PM AEST
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I couldn't stop reading this. We all go through our Pharisee period. Sadly, the other side is those who know only the grace and feel no need to be hindered by God's rules. Your writes always give me much to ponder and cause me to re-examine my own walk. Good for you!
Stitch

Re: Sepulchre (User Rating: 1 )
by lostinmyself on Sunday, 6th February 2005 @ 03:36:44 PM AEST
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Your writes always make me think...
I love this, your words are beautiful.

I especially like this part:

Written on the diaphanous tissue
Are your crushing words
Bold print in red
That point the condemning finger
Used to paint a biblical picture of
A modern day me....
The Pharisee in me.
Can there be hope
For a heart
As muddled and murky as mine?

Stunning write sweetie,
*huggies* Phil xxx

Re: Sepulchre (User Rating: 1 )
by the_Ghost_Moth on Thursday, 10th February 2005 @ 09:55:04 PM AEST
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Excellent writing, Em.
I'm glad I got a chance to read it.

--Ghosty

Re: Sepulchre (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Tuesday, 15th February 2005 @ 01:07:28 AM AEST
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great work based on part of a great book, well done.

Johnny.

Re: Sepulchre (User Rating: 1 )
by Cesaria1 on Wednesday, 16th February 2005 @ 09:44:22 PM AEST
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"thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!"
=2 cor. 9:15=

Re: Sepulchre (User Rating: 1 )
by Archie on Friday, 7th October 2005 @ 08:34:11 PM AEST
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I like this a lot

There is hope for you as there is for me, we just have to become like little children.

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