{"id":3874,"date":"2019-11-11T11:04:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T16:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2019-11-11T11:07:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T16:07:50","slug":"the-facade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/11\/the-facade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fa\u00e7ade"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\" Drawing by: Fourar Amira<\/h6>\n
Staring at people in a masquerade, living secret lives, hidden, as in unmarked graves
\nThey move and walk in circles, made by unseen forces, with chattering voices, that no one hears\u2026<\/h6>\n
Shrouded with blank faces, smeared with mystery, full of fear and dark history, but do not dare, show their river of tears\u2026<\/h6>\n
What would others think if they saw behind the fa\u00e7ade?
\nDeception keeps them from knowing the true and living God\u2026
\nSo, they live lives of deep, silent sorrow\u2026with no hope for tomorrow
\nWhile they steal and borrow what they think is love\u2026<\/h6>\n
Full of flesh and full of pride, only death walks by their side
\nEyes have they but they cannot see\u2026ears to hear but cannot be heard
\nSpeaking, but utter no words\u2026broken, wingless, birds\u2026<\/h6>\n
There\u2019s the man living in his mansion who has no food to eat\u2026
\nThere\u2019s the business woman in fine attire, living on the street\u2026
\nThere\u2019s the fine, respectable couple, but each night they weep, and cannot sleep\u2026
\nScreams of hatred as he beats, the woman who lies, lifeless on the sheets\u2026<\/h6>\n
Men and women without identities\u2026looking for answers but cannot believe anything; unbelief drives them to despair\u2026
\nWalking in midair\u2026among the crowed streets\u2026<\/h6>\n
Could be a neighbor, or the stranger that you meet\u2026
\nCould be the bartender, or fallen woman that you greet\u2026
\nIn the church, or, doctor\u2019s office, who stood while you took their seat\u2026<\/h6>\n
It could even be, your family\u2026<\/h6>\n
How do you treat\u2026the people that you meet?<\/h6>\n
Maybe it\u2019s you, with secret hurts and wounds, who stagger on weary feet\u2026
\nSinging happy songs and little tunes to cover up your defeat\u2026
\nDisguising torment, behind your seeking eyes\u2026<\/h6>\n
So, here\u2019s the thing I want to say\u2026
\nWe\u2019re not perfect, we\u2019re forgiven along our way\u2026
\nWe\u2019re no better than any other\u2026each person is a sister, or, a brother\u2026
\nLove is the only cure, for this sin, sick, world we\u2019re living in\u2026
\nAnd in the end, of a long hard day\u2026
\nTurn around, and walk the other way\u2026
\nOpen the door and let in the light, then the darkness cannot stay\u2026<\/h6>\n
Jesus is the Light!<\/h6>\n
In him there is no judgement, no self-righteousness, no condemnation, walk in His divine love\u2026<\/h6>\n
The grave will only house the body\u2026your spirit will live forever\u2026choose life!<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill November 11, 2019<\/h6>\n
Proverbs 14:12 The Passion Translation (TPT)<\/strong> You can rationalize it all you want<\/em>
\nand justify the path of error you have chosen, but you\u2019ll find out in the end that you took the road to destruction.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Romans 6:20-23 The Passion Translation (TPT)<\/strong> For when you were bound as servants to sin, you lived your lives free from any obligation to righteousness.<\/em><\/h6>\n
So, tell me, what benefit ensued from doing those things that you\u2019re now ashamed of? It left you with nothing but a legacy of shame and death. <\/em><\/h6>\n
But now, as God\u2019s loving servants, you live in joyous freedom from the power of sin. So, consider the benefits you now enjoy\u2014you are brought deeper into the experience of true holiness that ends with eternal life! <\/em><\/h6>\n
For sin\u2019s meager wages is death,[a] but God\u2019s lavish gift is life eternal, found in your union with our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Footnotes:<\/em><\/strong>
\na. Romans 6:23 The Greek word translated \u201cmeager wages\u201d actually means \u201cthe wages of a foot soldier.\u201d This Greek word, opsonion, is taken from the word used for a piece of dried fish: opsarion. The Aramaic can be translated \u201cThe business of sin is death.\u201d<\/em>
\nJohn 14:6 The Passion Translation (TPT) Jesus explained, \u201cI am the Way, I am the Truth,[a] and I am the Life. No one comes next to the Father[b] except through union with me.[c] To know me is to know my Father too.\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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