Luke 2:12

Sin’s great lie is indulgence.
Seductively it whispers, “Satiate with diligence.

Fill your coffers with plenteous things.
Enjoy—fully—the delight each brings.

Riches and gold are everything…”
Crunes the song of sin’s sing.

“Be strong!  Be mighty!  Be all!
Take your place, proud and tall!”

Yes.  Sin’s great lie?
You ARE the great king on High.

“Might and glory are your right.
So let your worth shine bright!

Take for yourself your dues.
Enforce Your Might; never lose!”

But alas, sin does what sin does—
Detracting from The Glory that Is and Was.

Glory that belongs to one alone;
He Who Sits on Heaven’s Throne.

The great lie of Hell
Fails to deliver what it does sell.

Peddling in fleeting pleasures,
It delivers but momentary treasures. 

Yet, strength and might are not the way.
Filling our coffers won’t satisfy the day. 

Christ—He shows true greatness, 
In humility and meekness.

Not in strength did He come.
But tiny child He did become.

Glory lay in that manger so mild
And sin—in infant lowly—was beguiled 

Fix your gaze there,
Rejecting Hell’s seductive stare.

For glory is found
In swaddled baby bound.