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Pretension - Poem


Jer:3:10 She had only pretended to be sorry. 

How do you know it is pretension, Lord? 
Why do you say it is only superficial? 
At that time when I apologized, I was genuine. 
From the depth of my heart, I said sorry. 

Oh! I don't see a change, dear one. 
If it is from your heart, if it was genuine, 
You wouldn't have desired to do it again. 
But now if an opportunity comes, you would want to fall. 

If the purity of my heart, the holiness of your Father, 
The love that salvaged you from the miry clay:
If these were significant in your heart, 
Then you wouldn't have wandered off to adultery yet again. 

Look at David; he committed adultery
But his cry of repentance wasn't cursory
It was the cry from the depth of his heart
Against you and you alone, I sinned. 

But your apologies aren't sincere. 
Because if they were mature and sensible
Would you go back, thinking, "If at all"
Like a dog going back to it's vomit. 

It is one thing to be helpless in your demeanour
Even if you stumble and fall yet again
It is another to indulge, thinking God would forgive
Taking Him for granted, yet again. 

Learn to look at my heart, dear one
Not to give importance to what you feel. 
I want to do it, appeases your self
Father forgive me is looking into His heart. 

Pretending to be sorry but reveling in the same
That's utter foolishness. Who are you trying to fool? 
The one who sees the heart inside out? 
The one who created and fashioned you? 

I want to come out of it. 
Though I am helpless, I desire to
He will enable; I will cling on to Him
I hate this dichotomy:Lord please help. 
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