Reflections about an old age

How many people often nurse
their sins, reluctant to give up,
not wishing from them to breakup.
Sometimes, with years, things get worse.

Alas, transgressions could increase
as it can happens with the age.
Some easily fall in a rage
blaspheme, use swear words with ease.

Or those people, who are weak,
when disappointments envelop,
love for an alcohol develop,
not caring that they reek.

And even good traits turn to bad:
from being thrifty, from a seed,
the others could develop greed,
and money makes truly mad.

Most humans try their sins to hide
from God’s all-seeing wise eyes
all their envy, sloth, and lies,
manifestations of all pride.

When we believe that we are good,
but circumstances make us fall,
then sins could lead to a pitfall.
One to resist temptation should…

Yet, this is not an easy task:
oh, how easily sin sticks!
It know all the known tricks
and can put on a nice mask.

By mimicking a decent look,
it happens that an old fool
at naked ladies’ pictures drool,-
he’s hanging on the Satan’s hook.

As instincts him in sin enmesh,
a human turns into a chimp,
because his mind is so limp,
controlled and guided by the flesh.

Who could God’s judgement then avoid?
Death circles over each head,
which sinful people often dread,
when claims for life are null and void.

For what’s awaits for them, who’d tell?
So, at the end a fear creeps...
The one, who sinful nature keeps,
is heading surely to hell.

But those, who believed in God,
and Jesus Christ, His holy blood,
become new creatures in the bud,
unless their faith is a fraud.

Such person, grieved by former wrongs,
he with God’s Word his mind measures,
avoiding vice and wicked pleasures,
he for the Heaven daily longs.

The Lord such Christian empower
to overcome the nature’s call,
gives strength, enabling in all
to trust the Lord in evil hour.

When we return to God our breath,
Christ Jesus welcomes all repentant
into His Paradise resplendent,
removing power of death.

All human creatures, made of clay,
will turn one day to mere dust,
but them, who God alone trust,
are not afraid of that day.

14.06.2023

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