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Deceitful Desires

Tune: Heinlein

(\'40 days and 40 nights\')

James 4 v.1-4

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From whence come conflicts, fightings?

Among humans, different things?

Do they not come from desires

For pleasure, stirred in you fires?

 

You desire, lust, yet have not

Things you want, for greed your lot

You have not, for you not ask

Rightly, but spend on wrong task

 

So you receive not, for you

Ask that you may selfish do

What you please and be consumed

With what you want, you presumed

 

It is like adultery

When you thus so worldly be

Friendship with the world is sure

Enmity with God, impure

 

Whosoever will be friend

Of the world, on it depend

They do make self enemy

Of God, this their state truly