Trials and Maturity
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
Count it all joy with your trial,
The trials of various kinds;
Temptations make you defile,
With corruption within the minds.
You know it puts faith to the test,
For steadfastness in your patience;
Allowing you to do your best,
As your mind will check your conscience.
Let your patience have full effect,
For to be perfect and complete;
Wanting nothing to neglect,
That would be causing your defeat.
If any of you lack wisdom,
Then feel free to pray to the Lord;
He gives requests from His Kingdom,
Generously in one accord.
Go and ask in faith without a doubt,
For doubts are like waves of the sea;
Tossed by the wind-driven about,
Rejecting of any decree.
Let a person never to think,
Anything that they will receive;
From the Lord in permanent ink,
If they do not firmly believe.
Believers have favor in the Lord,
Must never show favoritism;
Always being in one accord,
Attracted like magnetism.
For a double-minded person,
Is unstable in all their ways;
Uncertainty when they are done,
Indecisive within a maze.
Copyright ©2022 Richard Newton Sherrer
About this poem
Testing of Your Faith James 2:2-8
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Written on April 14, 2022
Submitted by richards.77936 on April 13, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
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Words | 223 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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