Tradition versus Truth

Tradition is all right

If we do not lose sight

Of the truth’s light

That is always pointing right.

Both day and night

It is ever bright

But with tradition’s might

Some will lose the fight.

Tradition battles for priority

With its major weapon, obscurity

Clouding man’s visibility

To the truth’s invincibility. 

The truth of God

Opposed by the traditions men,

The latter taking prominence

And creating many a problem.

Swallowed up by cultures

Is our modern day Church

And the teachings of the Apostles

By today’s experts.

Where the Bible now is

Is where God was,

Fresh revelation we need

Is the ongoing buzz.

We have the God searchers

Based on a man’s book,

Hence, a shift from the Bible

To a different outlook.

Traditions of old

Being replaced by the new,

All of them man-made,

Everyone is a man’s view.

And the Word is basically used

As a point of support

Of men’s traditions

To which many resort.

 

Loyalties are divided

Between God and a founder

And between the two,

Denominations flounder.

Receiving little from God,

From their founder nothing

And like a hungry man,

Stomach merely rumbling.

Adding to God’s Word

Subtracting from Christ’s essence,

 Multiplying salvation’s requirements

Dividing loyalty, a deadly expense.

Truth versus Tradition

Now a colossal battle,

In the church and without

Affecting all people.

Men walking tall like trees

As seen by the visibly impaired,

The blind leading the blind

And both going nowhere.

An epic battle indeed

Church leaders overcome by greed,

The gullible following their lead

And paying the truth little heed.

It is time to step back

Time to take a fresh look:

A look at the Bible, I mean,

God’s Holy Book.

Traditions will disappear

And so will their founders

But the truth of God

Will stand forever.

Tradition Versus Truth:

Truth the eventual winner!

Focus not on a denomination’s founder,

You may end up a loser.

Stewart Russell © December 2019