YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS..

When we put on Christ we become like new
His truths become ours to live by,
before we judge the words and the actions of others
take the plank from out our own eye.

A teller of tales and a gossip
hurt so many with their loose lips,
ruining many good reputations
when such thoughtlessness that they let slip.

If we’re inclined to this kind of action
there’s a way to keep it in line,
the Golden Rule keeps us from sinning
what would it feel like if this sorrow was mine.

When we’ve fallen from grace by wrong doings
we must hurry to God and repent,
there’ll be no peace until we have righted
the bad seeds that we’ve sadly spent.

We must use every talent we’re given
to help all God’s children to see,
that His truths are what we should live by
only then will we truly be free.

Margaret Rose Larrivee
Mar. 09, 2007