Not for this life

After I Peter 4:1-6

Live not for this life,

as you live in this life,

for to live for this life

is to live for self,

indulging human passions.

Set the life of this life

aside, with its passions,

sensuality, drunkenness,

and debauchery. Yes, you

will be maligned for not

going with the flow;

the darkness of this world

is strong. But you have

made a different choice,

to turn away from

the passions of this life,

to live in the spirit

given you, the spirit

of salvation.

Some Friday Readings

That Blessed Hope – poem by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper at Kingdon Poets (D.S. Martin).

Sleeping with the Gospels – Michael J. Kruger at Canon Fodder.

Everyone Should Believe in God – Ross Douthat at The Free Press.

Perspicuity – poem by Seth Lewis.

What is Truth? – Andrew Klavan at The New Jerusalem.