LIFE IS AN ACT OF WORSHIP

 

Life is an act of worship,

who or what to offer adoration?

My heart dost firmly grip

just how crucial is this decision.

 

Who or what to offer adoration

is the question mine heart must decide.

Just how crucial is this decision?

Oh, it cannot be ignored. I tried.

 

This is the question mine heart must decide:

For whom or what shall I live?

Oh, it cannot be ignored. I tried

not my heart, my life to give.

 

For who or what shall I live?

I tried to make the decision

not my heart, my life to give.

But then myself became number one.

 

I tried to make the decision

to not decide at all,

but then myself became number one.

That was the beginning of my fall.

 

To not decide at all,

was to choose self over Christ.

That was the beginning of my fall.

Oh, I'm so easily enticed.

 

Why did I choose self over Christ?

It may have been unintentional,

but, I'm so easily enticed.

Keep me from my Lord, sin shall.

 

It may have been unintentional,

to serve mine own flesh.

Keep me from my Lord, sin shall.

Now, I feel like trash.

 

Serving mine own flesh

is the root of all my guilt.

Now, I feel like trash.

In my hands, my fate I have helt.

 

The root of all my guilt

is selfishness...sinfulness.

In my hands, my fate I have helt.

And of it, I made such a mess.

Is selfishness...sinfulness

the choice I want to make?

And of my life, make such a mess?

Don't I know what's at stake?

 

The choice I want to make,

My heart dost firmly grip

I know what's at stake.

Life is an act of worship.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Due to the length of this poem, it would not fit in a single short-form video on Youtube, so I recorded it as part one and part two.  If you would like to hear me read it, the link for Part One is:  https://youtube.com/shorts/X_U7zXourBY  The link for Part Two is:  https://youtube.com/shorts/sH9oiV7HTPA

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