ALL ELSE IS DUNG!!

You can’t hurt yourself enough for God
humiliate,
throw enough dirt,
cast yourself
on the raw earth
cover yourself
in sackcloth
and ashes,
make enough wounds
until the flesh is covered
with nothing but scabs,

No,

You can’t mouth enough prayers,
recite the same words
over and over,
until they numb
the tongue,
the rosary
just beads
without God

You can’t burn enough
incense,
read enough scriptures,
learn enough verses,
preach enough sermons,
if you trust only in this

No.

You can’t shed
enough tears,
drown
in the sheer
agony of them,

You can’t perform
enough good works
to be accepted by God.
give everything to the poor,
until you are naked and destitute,
let yourself
be incinerated,
butchered,
shot,
stabbed,
and ripped apart by wild
animals,

No.

You can’t enter enough
buildings,
sing enough hymns,
become a member
of enough denominations,
Lutheran,
Catholic,
Mennonite,
Methodist,
Baptist,
Pentecostal,
Episcopalin,
You can’t follow the right
doctrines,
Boast not in religion
Boast in Jesus!

even if you,
abstain from dancing,
abstain from imbibing
the vine,
abstain from make-up,
abstain from this,
and abstain from that,
Trust not in your flesh
in what it can do

Even if you say you accept Jesus
into your heart,
without real repentance,
even if you recite the words,
your faith is fruitless,
go to the Crusades,
listen to the sermons
on Christian radio,
John MacCarthur,
Chuck Swindoll,
Greg Lorre,
Focus on the Family,
without the Holy Spirit,
you are a Pharisee,
weighing and balancing,
fasting,
what will fasting do?
without Grace?

You can’t pronounce
your heart righteous,
nor can anyone else?
Billy Graham isn’t the way
nor is the Pope

Oh love,
dear ones,
you wrestle with God,
as Jacob did,
your food comes
from the One who gave
His Life on Calvary,
The Great I Am is your Salvation
not the Ten Commandments,
who can keep them but a liar?
no one is Good but God,
there isn’t enough virtue
in you
oh fool!
we are but vapor!
One, One is Eternal!
The Glory!
The Grace!
The Love!
His Name Is Jesus the Christ!
When He Bowed His Head and Gave Up
His Spirit
IT WAS FINISHED!
We rest upon His Work, and Only His Work
THE SHED BLOOD OF CHRIST!
all else is dung!

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