I Never Knew You

 

 

“I never knew you:

Depart from me,”

The words of Jesus

“Ye that work iniquity.”

 

The first four words

Constitute my focus:

These four harsh words

Are words of Jesus.

 

“I never knew you:”

Follow by, “Depart from me.”

There is something here

We should easily see.

 

Bible commentaries

Give different meanings

And most of them differ

From what Jesus is saying.

 

I know very little Greek

And no Hebrew at all:

Neither is my forte

Neither is my call.

 

I don’t run for a dictionary

For words I understand,

And neither will I now:

That’s not the plan.

 

These words are explicit

They must mean what they say,

They are point blank clear

In them is no grey.

 

Could a mother say such?

Regarding her child?

Not the child she gave birth to:

No matter how wild.

A father could not say such

In respect of his son,

In his words would be no truth

Absolutely none.

 

If Jesus did not mean

What he actually said,

Can I therefore assume

He was not right in his head?

 

If there is a single such instance

in all of Scripture

Then the Word of God

Is less than a perfect picture.

 

Know ye not that a little leaven

Leaveneth the whole lump?

Hence, any falsehood in truth

And truth must be dumped.

 

 

So, consider the word “never”

That Jesus actually spoke

And bear in your mind

It is part of his quote.

 

An essential part at that

And this is a fact:

Jesus has never said anything

That he had to take back.

 

He said what he meant

And he meant what he said;

If he said you were never alive

You were always dead.

 

Such were the Pharisees

That pretended to be alive

But never knew the life-giver

Since the life-giver they denied.

 

Stewart Russell © August 22, 2020