Colossians 3:9-10      New English Translation

9 Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices 10 and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it.

Tenderness and merciful, loving, and sympathetic

Started developing in the one, who is to be me

Two steps forward, one step back my progress is pathetic

It is not me who moves me on as love is securing me

I will use my feeling to express who lives inside

Committed in soul to the Cross, it did not lose its function

To walk by God’s power as the natural will be denied

So I am not deprived in my emotion towards perfection

When God guides my emotion, God’s hand will lead me on

It is newly created and the noblest now entertains in me

For the image of Christ before me as I hunger to be like Him

It will fill my new compassion to help others to be free

Jan Wienen