saving simplicity

believe in God
that’s all
maybe reminded
that
God is love
as well as judgment
and it seems
would rather love
us
than judge
us

read the verse
after
3:16
for God’s rather
what God
would rather do
and that
together these
verses shall say
the reason
for salvation
is not lack of fallacy
or even
fullness
in fortitude
but because there’s love

in
foreground
and in
background
and on which our lives
are painted in
between

love
and faith in love
from the Lord
that are
the Lord
in all the parts
and all of them
unfailing

and shall we love
and believe
from the same capacities
of creator
in
creation

simply
that’s ours to choose
war or peace
attack or
rescue
like the one
who from our perspective
must allow
our choosing
from
either course
weighed out of love
and faith
that’s all

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