LOVED BY GOD

He who descended

Condescended to view

Beggar, leper or taxman

With lowly eyes.

The world lying

In the wicked one, the holy One

Raised, through His tongue,

The truth.

Making ointment, blessing children,

Touching the blind and dumb,

And the leper:

What perfect hands.

Every feature flowed,

Grace and compassion to me,

Praise and dependence to God,

From a pure heart.

What of His feet?

They bore Him

To desert, mountain, plain,

Gennesaret, Gethsemane, Golgotha.

So men heard God's word,

Noble, just, pure and amiable,

Virtue and praise,

From the Faithful and True Witness.

By His cross and blood

He breached the wall

And made the disparate

One.

We learn by contrasts: this is a response to Proverbs 6: 16:

16 These six things doth Jehovah hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;

18 a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations; feet that are swift in running to mischief;

19 a false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discords among brethren.

High Pond