Month: April 2025

Thirty pieces is all it took 
to throw Jesus under the bus. 
Judas was more than just a crook; 
he was was controlled by seething lust. 
The one thing he could never brook 
was letting money gather dust. 
He was concerned to always cook 
the books to build up his own trust. 
Yet, in my life I too must look: 
Is there a vice on which I'm hooked?   

“Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.” – Matthew 26: 14-16

See not The Truth that stares you in the face. 
That Truth, if seen, will change your course for good. 
Instead, cling to the alternating truths 
that prove to you that you are right, not him.

And when That Truth stood boldly up to them, 
they picked up stones to throw at him, at him! 
"A devil is inside of him! We must 
now kill him so our truths stay firmly fixed!" 
But he went out and left their souls for good. 

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. … Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.” – John 8: 51, 59

The light of life is what he gives 
unto the ones who follow him. 
That light, eternal, truly is
a focused spotlight showing them: 
The cross is lit; it is his hour 
to demonstrate his heavenly power.
By shining in that awful place, 
he shows us power is fueled by grace. 

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” – John 8: 12

At the pool Bethesda: “Jesus saith unto him, ‘Rise, take thy bed, and walk.’ And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.” – John 5: 8-9

Around the pool there were many
  seeking to be healed.
Of them all, the one he spied
  was to the rest concealed.
The infirmed man for thirty-eight years
  could barely move at all.
But on that day at Jesus' word
  he stood up straight and tall.
He knew not then who cured him there.
  But when he broke the rules,
the Righteous Ones demanded to know
  who freed him at the pool.
He later learned that Jesus did it,
  and told the Righteous Guild,
who from that day conspired and said,
  "That Jesus must be killed!"