Humility

Another Pomegranate poem.

 

Be Not like a pomegranate

 

My brothers! Speak the truth

And lie not with lying lips.

Be not like a pomegranate,

Whose outer face looks fine.

Its outer face looks fine,

But inside it is full of seed-corns or rottenness.

Be like wine-jars

Full of fragrant wine.

Their outside is clay and pitch,

But inside is fragrant wine.

This message of life cries,

Ears of my chosen, hearken to me.

 

Matt 5:14-16:: 6:1-6 :: 6:28-30 (St. Matt has some to say on this as well)

 

6:1       Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

6:2       Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

6:3       But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

6:4       That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

6:5       And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

6:6       But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

 

6:28     And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

6:29     And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

6:30     Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?