Tired of Sin

[devoiler]

Please help me won't you let me in?
I'm hungry and thirsty and tired of Sin.

What is that under your arm?
A bag of gold and a telephone?

There's room for you here but not as you are.
Go repent your sins and feed the poor.

Repent I have, it's absolutely true.
Listen while I repent to you.

You'll know when you have repented.
You'll bear the weight of the cross.
Three days the suffering will last.
Then will come the Holy Ghost.

 

[Milee777]

the last para is really making me very interested in what u hav posted. am curious...
nice one

 

[oldethennew]

AMEN!

 

[devoiler]

the last para is really making me very interested in what u hav posted. am curious...
nice one

Thanks. The poem is based on my own experience and a recent reading of the Gospel of John. If you read from where Jesus prevents the stoning of the woman onward. I could relate to the need for Jesus to send the Holy Ghost/Comforter.

In brief, my personal experience was:

- Had previously attempted to repent and, in hindsight, hadn't really repented.

- One night I prayed to Jesus to help me understand the Old Testament. I thought something wasn't 'right', but couldn't make sense of it. It was nagging me for upwards of 30 years and I wanted to know the truth of it. The thing that I was misinterpreting was the big picture, meaning it wasn't the details.

- Soon after, I started reading Exodus again and it was crystal clear. It was meant to be clear when it was written. The stumbling block for me was what I was told to believe. Took decades to get passed it.

- I was immediately floored. Literally felt like a massive weight on my shoulders. I started repenting, not that I had planned to at all, it just happened. I hardly ever cry, but I was crying off and on for days. The huge weight was there the whole time. When I was repenting it wasn't just for my personal sins. It was for more than that, but it's hard to find the words.

- Then after a few days or so, it was all lifted off my shoulders and I recieved even more clarity and I was comforted.

I hope nobody thinks that I'm implying that if you haven't had a similar experience then you haven't repented. Maybe there is a reason I had to suffer for days and others don't have to. I don't know.

Hopefully my story is useful to you in some way

 

[devoiler]

Was making a cup of tea and I recalled what else I was repenting. It was what was done to Jesus when he loved everyone. I'd known for a long time, but it really hit home at the time.

 

[EmilyFoster]

Very well written. Thanks for sharing, Devoiler. May God bless and guide you.