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"Bypassing Innocence"
by Woody Winchell
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Not innocence
But brokenness
Laid bare
Before the One
With Whom
We have to do
No pretending
No self-righteousness
Just raw exposure
Full disclosure
Of our hearts
What's hiding there
Trusting in air
Puffed up
By ignorance
False confidence
In the flesh
Blind to the truth
Of deplorable conditions
Lurking within
No conviction
Only self satisfaction
Hiding reality
Under carnality
Sin's false front
Covering disaster
Ready to pounce
Destruction unannounced
Focus lost
The highest cost
Of arrogance
Unholy pretence
That all is well
Ignoring the smell
Of smugness
In our own feces
Right through our anus
Discerning no difference
Between Him and us
Oh, the blindness!
Oh, the ignorance!
Oh, the stench!
Of innocence
Forsaking brokenness
For convenience
We are deceived
We don't believe
We have no need
For repentance
Based on ass-umptions
That were ok
We call it "grace"
Hiding our face
From Reality
Exploding carnality
All over creation
Like diarrhea
Extreme disorder
Of the high call
To please His heart
Letting Him search us
Revealing wickedness
Creating righteousness
Deep within
By conviction
Of our condition
Of His commitment
To transform
Turning our stench
Into brokenness
A sweet smelling fragrance
Bypassing innocence
No more presumption
Without the unction
Of the Spirit
No more defecating
All over ourselves
But pure removal
God's holy movement
Deep within
Eradicating sin
We are cleansed
By true grace
Beholding His face
Through repentance
Godly sorrow filling us
With longing groans
Before Him alone
We are laid bare
No innocence there
Just forgiveness
Sweet brokenness
Before His nostrils
Acknowledging our guilt
Yielded and still
Before His mercies
No more stench
No more self righteousness
No more innocence
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