by Richard Sherrer

A GENUINE LOVE

It is not as though I write,
 
To give you a new command;
 
Rather try to shed some light,
 
On one that God does demand.
 
 
 
An older Law from the start,
 
It is one that you have heard;
 
Should be engraved in your heart,
 
And written throughout His Word.
 
 
 
But I write also a new,
 
Commandment of which I give;
 
That exists in Christ for you,
 
The true light shining to live.
 
 
 
How can you live in the light?
 
When some believers you hate;
 
So darkness then fills your sight,
 
No longer do you see straight.
 
 
 
Live in the light if you love,
 
Any other believers;
 
Share as it flows from above,
 
With all other receivers.
 
 
 
Nothing destroys faith of those,
 
Who are living in the light;
 
Because of the love that flows,
 
Are given the pure insight.
 
 
 
I write because of your sin,
 
Are forgiven through Christ;
 
Since Christ you know did begin,
 
Before He was sacrificed.
 
 
 
I write because you have won,
 
And you know our Father;
 
Defeating the evil one,
 
Through Jesus Christ your Brother.
 
 
 
You have a genuine love,
 
That cannot be of this place;
 
So love not the world thereof,
 
It can never offer grace.