Hope for the Hypocrites

Is there hope for the hypocrites –

people like me

GRACE

and the chance to be free?

When we fall

there’s no grace

because we always said it was wrong.

We’re supposed to know better

or call nothing else sin.

 

JESUS,

I’ve heard in You there’s hope.

Can you set us free

from the idea that we’re supposed to be perfect?

I just want to be the woman weeping and kissing Your feet.

She loves You and needs You

and I know that she’s saved

and she’s been set free.

 

I know I’ve been wrong – never meant to deny it.

Just wanted to be good

Wanted to be right

And somehow there’s two kinds of people here

HEROES AND VILLIANS

Villains, they’ve told us, can change and make good

But heroes, if fallen

Can they be redeemed?

 

For me, I can’t bear to have fallen from grace . . .

THE OLDER BROTHER

they said

is the one we are like

But there’s no grace for us

when we’re the prodigal child.

 

Isn’t that what Paul was?

He thought he was good

but really, on hatred was all that he stood.

God didn’t abandon him

Condemn him and

LEAVE.

He opened his eyes

and then set him free!

So, he taught all have sinned

and can all be redeemed.

 

Stop calling me

GOOD

If all that it means

is a scarlet letter of judgement

every time I break.

 

HELP ME BELIEVE

I don’t have to be perfect

because I know Jesus paid the price for me.

When I say that I need Him

I say that I’ve sinned.

Isn’t that the opposite of what a hypocrite is?

 

So, I’ll stop pretending

that I’ll somehow earn this,

and embrace the grace

He’s already given

Hope for the hypocrites –

PEOPELE LIKE ME.