Sin, By: Andy Abelein

Hit, punch, smack! It strikes again, yes, that is it right, sin. Always there, always tempting, always strong, forever - it does not stop, it will not stop, even if you ask politely - sin does not care - for it is sin, you cannot win. Or so you think - so it wants you to think. It has you down - pinned like a tie, it follows you, always there, like it is stuck somehow - with glue - onto you. Do you want to? I think not - maybe i am wrong - you say "I want this to stop". Change, transform, be made brand new! Don't follow the trends, don't give in that easy - do you want to be engulfed, taken away, conformed? - hold fast onto this truth that you know! He is not sin - not a drop, not a sprinkle is in him - yet ignored He is! I am I AM!, He says, but you close your ears - you do not see His greatness, you miss out and don't hear. You can pick every string, hit every note, strum every chord, know every line - all these you do very well - But wait, your ears. For they are still closed, shut off from He who made you from dust, who makes you alive from sunrise to dusk. For great and glorious sounds come from your strings, but hear them - you cannot - for you reject the only King of Kings. Have you been enflamed? Taken over by it - that is what is evil. Have you fallen too far? Have you messed up too much? Yes, you might say, but you are still in touch - find Him, seek Him, thirst for Him in everything - He does not forget, yet he always forgives - Sin does not. It wants to take advantage of you, manipulate you, then take you down - make you one of its minions to bring others in. This world is sin, full of mound after mound - but He can take it all off your shoulders, pound after pound. Forgiveness or fire, the Good Shepherd or a devil, angels or demons, Heaven or Hell - the choice is yours.