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The Devil's Ruse
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By Michael P. Johnson
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        The Devil's Ruse

We war against our fellow man

We know when deeds are wrong

With zeal, we’ll serve the devil’s plan

Each time we sing his song

 

We’ll bear a grudge however small

Be deaf to neighbour’s cries

Rejoice when seeing someone fall

And laugh at their demise

 

We’ll gladly break God’s every rule

We’ll lie, connive and cheat

Loving to play the devil’s tool

Thriving at Satan’s feet

 

Wallowing in his filthy ooze

Seeking for worldly gain

We care not whom we thus abuse

Regardless of their pain

 

But why is man yet walking dead?

From Satan still accused?

Why should the world be so misled?

Her children still abused?

 

Why can’t she see and understand?

There is; a place to go

The Truth seeps steady through the land

Like active yeast in dough

 

Heaven reveals the devil’s ruse

Pouring us gratis wine

So now through Christ there’s no excuse

His gospel to decline

 

 So leave the devil to his fate

Let Heaven show The Way

God’s day of grace is growing late

There’s no time left to play…..


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Submitted: Thursday, January 24, 2013

Last Updated: Thursday, January 24, 2013

About the Poet
I never wrote a word of poetry in my life. Till the day Jesus took my hand and touched my soul.....I invite your response. However most poems are not about me! Very few are. But the feed-back good, bad or indifferent is always desired. Not meant to offend, but I write about many things in many a guise. Of life, death, lost, found, saved, backsliders, new comers, repenting souls, doubting hearts, heathens, Christians, fire, water, Satan's daughter, wallowing in sin, saved, made sound walking in Light, graceful righteous. Suffering, ecstatic, bored, excited, sad, delighted, Sick, well, lame, able, living, dying, etc. etc. etc. Writing about anything, everything and everyone as the spirit leads. All meant to reveal, waken, revive, encourage, shame, help. Gladden, pick up, exalt, portrait, liberate. Again over 99% of my work is not about me. Although at times I write as though I were or am. Speaking e.g. in the first person. This is quite common even in the bible itself. Prophets speak of themselves, then God speaks, again the prophet, then God......Quite often it's difficult to distinguish whom it is that at any given time is speaking or narrating.


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