Poem: Hater – The way of love

You say you are a Christian

but you

sit in judgement over my “life style”

when it is not a life style at all

I live the way I was born to live

and God says it is good

You say you are a Christian

but you

lie, betray abandoned, and deceive me

and then gaslight saying I am the liar when I have integrity

and you lost yours with all your hate and judgement

You say you are a Christian

but you

do not know the way of love

you do not know the ways of Jesus

nor

what he said to us

I know the way of love

so I

pity your hate

for it is not Christian love at all

only hate could do this to blood or a relative

only hate could hate a stranger you do not know

This is not what he wanted

I know the way of love

I have compassion for, you, the hater

For it is God working through me

every day because I let his light in

I do know the way of love

and

I love you anyway

like he taught me

to love you

By Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez

April 25, 2023

Corinthians 13 ESV

13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ² And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,^[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵ or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;^[b] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. ¹² For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

¹³ So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Footnotes

1. 1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast
2. 1 Corinthians 13:5 Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing

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