Salt
If you see me sin,
rebuke me,
perhaps you will bring me to my senses,
that I might not perish in everlasting fire.
Dilute not your love with compromise,
for this world is awash in such substance,
and stagnant does foster deceit.
Test the bounds of your faithfulness,
and in doing so,
bear not the burden of my sins,
beheld by your eyes.
Let the keeping of the New Covenant be that of Truth in Love,
as instructed by Maker and Saviour,
Love me with a bold and cleansing flame,
dispelling the darkness surrounding.
Bathe my wounds with prayers,
wash my feet with compassion,
remembering not costs to recovery,
that Life might abide in us both.
1999 Bro. James