The Sin Within

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The words we speak, the thoughts we think,

They come from down inside,

The place where we keep all the things

We try so hard to hide.

 

It’s not the poison in the world

That we need most to fear,

But all the darkest words and thoughts

That we tend to hold dear.

 

The anger that still bubbles up,

The envy that we hold,

The greed that says, “never enough”

Can turn a spirit cold.

 

Lord, lead us from the temptations

Born in a world of sin,

But help us guard against those, too,

That we harbor within.   

 

Mark 7:14-15

And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”