See, Hear, Speak No Evil

      Do you ever feel like the three monkeys who “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil” but in reverse? 

     As sinners, we constantly do hear, see, and speak evil.  It reminds me of the verses in Romans 7:15-20, “I do not understand what I do, For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.  And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.  As it is, it no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.  For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.  For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.  For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do – this I keep on doing.  Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.”   This all sounds so confusing, but it illustrates how we live.  For this reason, God sent Jesus to be a sacrifice for our sins.  Praise the Lord!

 

Actions I do not wish to do, 

But Jesus carries me through.

I hear, enter in, get side-tracked-  

My sins go on, piled and stacked.

I look -get enticed-

But, before me, walks my Christ.

My talk profane-gossip with my speech-

A sinless life simple not within my reach.

Evil deeds, I do not want;

They taunt, they haunt.

I hear, “Don’t look. Don’t touch.” 

My rebellious nature- just too much.

I instantly reach to seek. 

I’m just too weak.

Yet, before me lies forgiveness

Within the witness. 

Before me the silent judgment keep

As I repent and weep.  

I know, in guilty woe,

My sins are heaped upon a sacrifice.

In which Jesus paid the price.