Galatians 5:15, a verse so true,
A warning from Paul, to me and you.
To bite and devour, like cannibals do,
Is not just physical, but spiritual too.
To backbite, gossip, and be selfish too,
To control and judge, to hurt and bruise.
To destroy reputations, to divide and fight,
Is not of God, but of the devil's might.
We are called to be uniters, not dividers,
To promote peace, and love one another.
To adorn the doctrine of our Lord,
In all things, and in one accord.
Let us stop looking for faults in each other,
And instead spend our time on our Savior.
For to fight and destroy, is not the way,
But to love and forgive, is here to stay.
Let us mark the dividers, and remove them from our midst,
For to fight and argue, is not of Christ.
With so few believers in this world of unbelief,
Let us work together, to avoid all the grief.
So let us not be like cannibals,
Eating each other, destroying all.
But let us be like Christ, loving and kind,
And in all things, have peace of mind.
About Brandan Kraft
Brandan Kraft is a computer programmer from the Missouri Ozarks who has been writing about the sovereign grace of God since 1997. He started with a website called bornagain.net, built it into PristineGrace.org, and has published over two hundred articles, nearly sixty songs, and a growing catalog of podcasts from his living room in Ashland, Kentucky. All without permission from anyone.
He holds no seminary degree, no denominational endorsement, and no theological credentials. He has been writing software for the same employer since 1998. He thinks in systems and believes that the sharpest doctrine should produce the widest arms.
His systematic theology, A Thought in the Mind of God, derives every position from one sentence and applies it across every domain - from ontology to eschatology, from the nature of the human mind to the nature of heaven and hell. It is available at pristinegrace.org/mind.
Brandan lives in Ashland, Kentucky with his wife Angie and their son Cole. He plays trombone in the Marshall University Tri-State Brass Band and changes a diaper twice a day on a cat named OJ who was once paralyzed and whom nobody else wanted.
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