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  The Poetry Society of Virginia: M. Patterson Porterfield







The Preacher Said...

I.

I saw two things last week:
People willing to die, to kill others
because they hated;
And then
People willing to die, to save others
because they loved.
It is wonderful to know that
the latter still exist.


II.

I heard two things last week:
People praying to GOD
for deliverance;
And then
the same people declaring just how
they plan to deliver themselves, deaf
to anything GOD might be trying
to say.


III.

----you can pull people from the debris
but you haven't saved them,
only prolonged their lives.

Unless we repent we too will perish.
Cease trusting in man, that he can
change things in this earth,
and trust in GOD.


IV.

----frustration comes when we try
to deliver ourselves from things
that only GOD can deliver us from.

There is no hope
in man to deliver, but GOD
so loved the world that whoever believes
in Jesus might not perish.








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