08/16/2025
Poetry saved my life as a teenager dealing with physical and emotional abuse. And today, it’s still healing me in places that need light. I wrote this today in response to a loved one, but realized it’s a deliverance we all need to reset every now and then. I’ll call this one:
The Double Minded Deliverance
You visit the sick, but then talk hopelessly about their situation. You care for the innocent, but then pridefully live like you’re better than their parents for them. You speak sweetly to the weak, but then cast words of judgement to others about them. You lend an ear to the lonely, then spread their sorrows for others to hear. You open the door with blessings in words, but then pour fear and doubts on the listener. You offer money to the needy, but then tell the world they’re the reason you’re in lack. You move to help others, but then claim the moment as the victim. You say the Lord is your Shepard, but you obey your own will over His. You say you stay in the word, but I’ve never heard you utter a prayer in your own words. You say you want
companionship, but you condemn everyone in your life for not being perfect, as if you are. You say you love me, but your words oppress me instead of encourage. I’ve watched you be double minded and unstable in all your ways because of it. But the word says, “if thy eye be single the whole body will be full of light.” Matt 6:22 This means there’s hope of redemption available still for us all, no matter our age or the depth of darkness we may find ourselves in.
I love you, but I can’t live a lie with you. Instead let our eye be steady on Jesus, the Way, the Truth, and the Life. And let our heart not be troubled, but delivered from the evils within the mind which WE control. As we use our breath, focus, and action to glorify His name before all else, may it free us from the double minded delusion of self and shed any aspects of us that God detests.
“The haughty eyes, lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run to mischief, a false witness that speaks lies, or one who sows discord in a family.” Proverbs 6:16-17
