Live Out the Message



Let everyone be quick to hear,
Be slow to speak and slow to wrath;
Doing for the Lord and revere,
Avoiding trials on your path.

Anger of man does not produce,
The righteousness coming from God;
When you would let Satan seduce,
Sinful events to become flawed.

Put away all your filthiness,
Temptations that you have heard;
Along with rampant wickedness,
Receive with meekness of the Word.

The Holy Word to save your soul,
Not just hear but as a doer;
Letting the Lord be in control,
And be a righteous pursuer.

If one is only a hearer,
He sees not his face in a glass;
A reflection in the mirror,
Will only see any trespass.

He looks at it and goes away,
What He looks like he will forget;
Mindless of the Word goes astray,
For he has not confessed his debt.

One who looks at the perfect Law,
The Law of freedom perseveres;
As the doer receives no flaw,
While in the Lord he reveres.

If one thinks being religious,
And never did bridle his tongue;
Deception of being righteous,
Worthless words that are being flung.

Pure religion is undefiled,
Visits others with affliction;
Being unstained as His child,
Never having a conviction.

Copyright ©2022 Richard Newton Sherrer

About this poem

Hearing and Doing the Word James 1:19–27

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Written on April 27, 2022

Submitted by richards.77936 on April 26, 2022

Modified on April 26, 2023

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Scheme XAXA BCBX BDED FXFG GHGH IJIJ KLKL EMEM CNXN G
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,179
Words 255
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1

Richard Newton Sherrer

I was born and raised on a farm in Pennsylvania. It was a small family farm that was handed down through 8 generations of Sherrer men until my father; Newton just could not make a living from it any longer. He thought that I would make a better living away from the farm. So, I decided to join the Air Force in 1969 upon graduating from high school. I gained quite a bit of experience and insight on life while in the service. Even though I was only stationed on the east coast of the US, my Air Force career took me to Germany and Korea. After 20 years wearing of the blue uniform, I decided going in a different direction and found myself becoming very diverse in many different fields. Something still seemed missing to me after being separated from the service for about 10 years. The Air Force was a way of life for me, but really missed life in Korea. I found myself changing careers again. Poetry was an interest of his since my days in high school. With returning to the Lord, I felt motivated to write of my Christian beliefs. I started looking at Bible verses and reflecting on my own personal experiences. The Bible was found to be as true today as to when the various books were written. I could see much of what the Bible is teaching us as valid as every in modern time. It felt only natural to me on using his personal experience based on Bible verses and see much of my own life written in the Scriptures. God inspires me what to write about though. I do not claim to be an expert on God or the Bible. I am just a Christian who has become enlightened to write poetic verses from the Holy Scriptures. more…

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